Eleni (film)
Appearance
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 | November 1, 1985 |
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.
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 (ΔΣΕ) 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
See also
References
External links
- Eleni at IMDb
- Eleni at AllMovie
- Eleni at Box Office Mojo
- Eleni at Rotten Tomatoes
Categories:
- 1985 films
- American films
- English-language 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 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 drama film stubs