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21 December 1985 (Japan)
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Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this...
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It's about motherhood, not ideology.
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Kate Nelligan | ... | Eleni | |
| John Malkovich | ... | Nicholas 'Nick' Gage | |
| Linda Hunt | ... | Katina | |
| Oliver Cotton | ... | Katis | |
| Ronald Pickup | ... | Spiro | |
| Rosalie Crutchley | ... | Grandmother | |
| Glenne Headly | ... | Joan | |
| Dimitra Arliss | ... | Ana | |
| Steve Plytas | ... | Christos | |
| Peter Woodthorpe | ... | Grandfather | |
| Jon Rumney | ... | Lukas | |
| Alison King | ... | Lukas' Wife | |
| Leon Lissek | ... | Antoni | |
| Stefan Gryff | ... | Tasso | |
| Andrea Laskari | ... | Nikola |
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In the book, Nicholas wanted to kill the man who had his mother sentenced to death. He actually visited the now-elderly man, as seen in the movie, and was about to kill him, but as the real Nick wrote, '...the logical part of my mind told me there was only one road leading [in and] out of town.' So, instead of killing him, Nick spat on his face. He adds, 'In Greece, to spit on someone is the worst possible insult.' He left the house. Later, after a few months or so, Nick again tracked down the man who was vacationing in a city and entered the place and crept into the bedroom to kill him. However, after thinking about it, he changed his mind and left - this time for good.
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Other people commenting on this film complain about its being mere propaganda against communism and supporting fascism. What a lot of baloney. It's about mothers and children, and about how, no matter what kind of brawl is going on, the men run to the hills, leaving the women and children behind to be brutalized. And it's about how one woman lost her life because she refused to give her children up to the state, no matter who that state was.