Product Details

• Actors: Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt, Oliver Cotton, Ronald Pickup
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JNRJ
• For more information about "Eleni" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT MOVIE/Guaranteed to shed a tear!!!, February 22, 2004

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L Gontzes (Athens, Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eleni [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Definitely a wonderful movie and one of my personal favorites, Eleni, brings to the screen the true story of a boy whose family suffered terribly during the Greek Civil War 1946-49, but who managed, thanks to his mother's love, to get safely to the USA and raise his own family in peace. It is a movie about war, hunger, suffering, but most importantly courage, honor, sacrifice, and how Love-motherly love, can overcome and prevail even in the most difficult of situations. A great movie indeed which will surely bring tears to one's eyes! Needless to say, both Kate Nelligan and John Malkovich are superb in their roles as mother and son!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Glowing performances by Malkovich and Nelligan, July 11, 1999

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This review is from: Eleni [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This unforgettable film tells the true story of "New York Times" reporter Nicholas Gage and his journey to Greece to discover the truth about his mother's execution by Communists during the Greek rebellion after WWII. The story is brilliantly told as Gage unravels the secrets of his mother's torture and death, minutely observed and eloquently rendered. The film stands as a monument to a loving mother and heroic woman.Gage, the writer and Malkovich and Nelligan, the actors, have done Eleni Gatzoyiannis justice.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishingly authentic recreation of a period, August 27, 2006

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Patrick L (Carlsbad, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Eleni [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Having lived in Greece during the period portrayed in the film, I was dumbfounded by the extremely accurate recreation of the period. In addition to their other accomplishments, the creators of this film (producers, set designers, scripwriters, director, actors and others) deserve great praise for authentically reproducing in every single detail the total environment of the Communist insurgency that lasted, with breaks, from December 1944 until the Greek army managed to finally crush the elusive rebels in August 1949. If there was an Oscar for authentic period reproduction, Eleni would win it hands down.