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.Synopsis
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 on the remote Greek village of his upbringing, and he investigates what happened to his mother after Communist guerrillas of the
Democratic Army of Greece invade the village.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
