Eleni | |
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Directed by | Peter Yates |
Produced by |
Nicholas Gage Mark Pick Nick Vanoff Nigel Wooll (associate producer) |
Written by |
Nicholas Gage Steve Tesich |
Starring | |
Music by | Bruce Smeaton |
Cinematography | Billy Williams |
Edited by | Ray Lovejoy |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
Release date
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November 1, 1985 |
Running time
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114 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $7 million |
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.
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 ΔΣΕ invade the village.