| Eleni | |
| Director: | Peter Yates |
| Producer: | Nicholas Gage Mark Pick Nick Vanoff Nigel Wooll (associate producer) |
| Cinematography: | Billy Williams |
| Editing: | Ray Lovejoy |
| Music: | Bruce Smeaton |
| Studio: | CBS Theatrical Films |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. |
| Runtime: | 114 min. |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $12 million[1] |
| Gross: | $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 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 theDemocratic Army of Greece (ΔΣΕ).