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 Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt and Glenne Headly.

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
Communist Party of Greece

References

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