Eleni (film)

Eleni is the 1985 film adaptation of the memoir Eleni by Greek-American journalist Nicholas Gage. Directed by Peter Yates with a screenplay by Steve Tesich, the film stars John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt and Glenne Headly.

Plot

The film is told in a flashback format with Gage, now living in the United States, returning to his native Greece to solve the mystery of his mother's death when he was a child. The film looks back to the effect of the 1940s Greek Civil War in Lia – the remote Greek village of Gage's upbringing in the northwestern Greek region of Epirus; and in particular, the murder of his mother by communist guerrillas of the Democratic Army of Greece (ΔΣΕ).

Cast

Kate Nelligan as Eleni Gatzoyiannis

John Malkovich as Nicholas Gage

Linda Hunt as Katina

Oliver Cotton as Katis

Ronald Pickup as Spiro Skevis

Rosalie Crutchley as Grandmother

Glenne Headly as Joan Gage

Dimitra Arliss as Ana

See also

Red Terror

Democratic Army of Greece

OPLA

References

External links

1985 films

American political drama films

American war drama films

Films based on non-fiction books

Films directed by Peter Yates

Films set in Epirus

Films set in Greece

Films shot in Greece

Films set in the United States

Films shot in the United States

Films set in the 1940s

Films set in the 1980s

Warner Bros. films

1980s political drama films

CBS Theatrical Films films

Films scored by Bruce Smeaton

1980s war drama films

1985 drama films

1980s English-language films

1980s American films