Eleni (movie)
Eleni is the 1985 movie adaptation of the memoir Eleni by Greek-American journalist Nicholas Gage. Directed by Peter Yates with a screenplay by Steve Tesich, the movie stars John Malkovich, Kate Nelligan, Linda Hunt and Glenne Headly.
| Eleni | |
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| Directed by | Peter Yates |
| Produced by | Nicholas Gage Mark Pick Nick Vanoff Nigel Wooll (associate producer) |
| Written by | Nicholas Gage Steve Tesich |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Bruce Smeaton |
| Cinematography | Billy Williams |
| Edited by | Ray Lovejoy |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 114 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $12 million[1] |
| Box office | $305,102 |
Plot
The movie 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 childhood 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), which was founded by the Communist Party of Greece in order to make Greece a communist country.
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
Related pages
References
Other websites
- Eleni on IMDb
- Eleni at AllRovi
- Eleni at Box Office Mojo
- Eleni at Rotten Tomatoes