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1985 American film directed by Peter Yates From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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) |
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Cinematography | Billy Williams |
Edited by | Ray Lovejoy |
Music by | Bruce Smeaton |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 114 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12 million[1] |
Box office | $305,102 |
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).