ELENI (CBS, 1985) with John Malkovich and Kate Nelligan (1/4)

ELENI (1985) - CBS Productions Directed by Peter Yates Produced by Nicholas Gage, Mark Pick, Nick Vanoff, Nigel Wooll Written by Nicholas Gage, Steve Tesich Distributed by Embassy Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage, Eleni traces Gage's search for the truth behind the execution of his Greek mother Eleni. John Malkovich plays Gage (herein referred to only as Nick), a New York Times journalist assigned to cover a border war in Albania. Intimately familiar with his beat -- it's where he grew up -- Nick periodically flashes back to his childhood, and his memories of his late mother Eleni (Kate Nelligan). Not at all concerned with politics, Eleni goes to extreme lengths to shelter her children from the ravages of civil unrest. For attempting to smuggle her kids out of the country, Eleni is arrested and executed. Back in the present, Nick manages to locate local politico Katis (Oliver Cotton), the man who signed Eleni's death warrant. He wangles his way into Katis' confidence, then prepares to kill the man, but he's in for a surprise, and something of an epiphany. To read the "Eleni" book, download it from this link: https://secure.dnldrm.com/downloadfile.aspx?p=16931&a=0 and open it with the software you had to previously download from this link and install it on your computer: http://dnlreader.com/reader/dnlsetup.exe