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...responds New York Times reporter Nicholas Gage (John Malkovich) to his wife's suggestion that he abandon his 30-year preoccupation with exposing the circumstances surrounding his mother Eleni's wrongful trial and death during the 1948 purges in Greece. Haunted by the memory of his mother being taken to a People's Democratic Army work camp just prior to his successful escape from Greece at the age of 9, Gage is determined to bring his mother's assassins to justice before the 30-year statute of limitations on war crimes runs...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: The Gospel of St. Eleni | 11/14/1985 | See Source »

...seemed a simple enough stunt, so simple that Actress Kate Nelligan, 33, was determined to run the explosive course herself. On location in Spain, the actress was playing the title role in Eleni, the film of Nicholas Gage's book about his Greek mother (she was executed in 1948 by Communist rebels who had occupied her village after World War II). In the scene simulating an artillery attack by government forces, Nelligan "decided to liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 26, 1984 | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, Robert McAfee Brown Kleist, Joachim Maass ¶The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: Jun. 20, 1983 | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: May 23, 1983 | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

NONFICTION: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman Eleni, Nicholas Gage ∙Frida, Hayden Herrera ∙ Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov Salvador, Joan Didion ∙ White Mischief, James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

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