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.

Eleni
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Yates
Written by	Nicholas Gage Steve Tesich
Produced by	Nicholas Gage Mark Pick Nick Vanoff Nigel Wooll (associate producer)
Starring	Kate Nelligan John Malkovich Linda Hunt
Cinematography	Billy Williams
Edited by	Ray Lovejoy
Music by	Bruce Smeaton
Production company	CBS Theatrical Films
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	1 November 1985 (1985-11-01)
Running time	114 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$12 million[1]
Box office	$305,102

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