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Eleni (film)

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'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



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 ().

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

References




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