What is Eleni (movie)?
{{Infobox film | name = Eleni | image = | caption = | director = [[Peter Yates]] | writer = [[Nicholas Gage]]<br>Steve Tesich | producer = Nicholas Gage<br>Mark Pick<br>Nick Vanoff<br>Nigel Wooll (associate producer) | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Kate Nelligan]] * [[John Malkovich]] * [[Linda Hunt]] }} | cinematography = [[Billy Williams (cinematographer)|Billy Williams]] | editing = Ray Lovejoy | music = [[Bruce Smeaton]] | studio = [[CBS Theatrical Films]] | distributor = [[Warner Bros.]] | released = {{Film date|df=yes|1985|11|1}} | runtime = 114 min. | country = United States | language = English | budget = $12 million<ref>{{cite web | title=Eleni| website=AFI | date=1985-11-01 | url=http://catalog.afi.com/Film/57673-ELENI | access-date=2021-05-21}}</ref> | gross = $305,102 }} '''''Eleni''''' is the 1985 [[movie]] adaptation of the [[memoir]] ''Eleni'' by Greek-American journalist [[Nicholas Gage]]. Directed by [[Peter Yates]] with a [[screenplay]] by Steve Tesich, the movie stars [[John Malkovich]], [[Kate Nelligan]], [[Linda Hunt]] and [[Glenne Headly]]. ==Plot== The movie is told in a [[:wikt:flashback|flashback]] [[:wikt:format|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 childhood in the northwestern Greek region of [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]]; and in particular, the murder of his mother by [[Communism|communist]] [[guerrilla]]s of the [[Democratic Army of Greece]] (ΔΣΕ), which was founded by the [[Communist Party of Greece]] in order to make Greece a communist country. ==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 Crutch