The story of Eleni Gatzoyiannis unfolded during the bitter days of World War II and the Greek civil war.įrom 1940 until 1949, Greek peasants like Mr. That is what my story in the film is about - her ultimate triumph.'' She had lived to get her children out of that crushingly difficult and backward life, and that is what she achieved.
But when I played the part, I never felt sorry for her because she never felt sorry for herself. I took that same last walk she took, and of course I was deeply moved and upset. I walked from the trial site to the spot where she died. I watched her, and it was as though time had frozen somehow. I stood exactly where she had fallen, and a woman came by herding her animals. ''Nick brought me to the spot where his mother was executed,'' Miss Nelligan said, ''and he just left me there and walked away. He brought her to Lia, where he was born and raised until the age of 9, and where his mother lived and died. Gage took Miss Nelligan on a trip that was emotionally wrenching for both of them. The photograph was taken a few months before the film was shot, when Mr. The film, in which John Malkovich co-stars as Mr. The blond woman is the actress Kate Nelligan, who joins the town's ranks temporarily to play Eleni, who gave her life so that her children might escape to freedom, in the film version of Mr.
Some of the village women are his relatives, peasants who still live in the village of Lia where his mother's martyrdom occurred. The man is Nicholas Gage, whose book ''Eleni'' chronicles the torture and murder of his mother in 1948 by Communist guerrillas during the Greek civil war, and his own return to Greece some 30 years later to search for his mother's killers. There are several older Greek women, their hair tied by scarves, peasant-style, their faces weathered and lined, and at least two apparent tourists, a man and a striking young woman with short blond hair. The sun is bright, and the vines and lush Mediterranean vegetation give the sense of an arbor in the garden behind. It shows several people sitting around a wooden picnic table in a Greek town. The small snapshot could be a tourist's memento.
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