title: Eleni (film)
text: # Eleni (film)
  
  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 (ΔΣΕ).
  
  ## 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
  