Eleni (film)
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Eleni | |
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Directed by | Peter Yates |
Written by | Nicholas Gage Steve Tesich |
Produced by | Nicholas Gage Mark Pick Nick Vanoff Nigel Wooll (associate producer) |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Billy Williams |
Edited by | Ray Lovejoy |
Music by | Bruce Smeaton |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date |
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Running time | 114 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million[1] |
Box office | $305,102 |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Eleni at IMDb
- Eleni at AllMovie
- Eleni at Box Office Mojo
- Eleni at Rotten Tomatoes
Categories:
- 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
- English-language war drama films
- 1980s drama film stubs
- 1980s American film stubs