Petros Markaris

Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and translator, Petros Markaris was born in Istanbul, studied economics and since 1976 has been working as a freelance writer. His detective novels ("Night Bulletin", "Defense Zone", "Che Killed himself", "Major Shareholder", "Old, very old", "Overdue Loans") are published in fourteen languages ​​and his hero, the policeman Haritos , is one of the most popular detective heroes in Europe. He collaborated with Theodoros Angelopoulos in many of his film scripts. He has also translated into Greek the works of Brecht, Wedekind, Schnitzler. His latest translation is the two parts of Goethe's Faust.

Works

7.8

Eternity and a Day

Famous writer Alexander contracts a terminal illness. He receives a letter from his wife describing a summer day 30 years ago, and leaves his seaside home to remember his past. This journey will allow him to wander between the past and the present, and encounter unexpected people, allowing him to collect unforgettable memories in the final moments of his life.

Release Date1998-10-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Vote Count204

6.3

Days of '36

The assassin of a prominent trade unionist takes a conservative MP hostage, throwing the government into a state of disarray.

Release Date1972-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Murdered Trade Unionist

Vote Count31

Murder at Agora

The film, in the distinctive style of a crime novel, explores contemporary Greek reality through the literature of Petros Markaris.

Release Date2007-03-23

Charactersd Self (uncredited)

Patision blues, el mirall de la crisi grega

Release Date2013-10-29

Charactersd Self

7.4

Ulysses' Gaze

An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

Release Date1995-10-12

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Vote Count116

6.7

The Suspended Step of the Stork

A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappeared mysteriously years ago.

Release Date1991-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count57

7.5

The Weeping Meadow

The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa arriving near Thessaloniki. Led by the charismatic Spyros, they establish a new settlement in the delta of a river. The youngest of the settlers are Spyros' son Alexis and an orphan from Odessa, Eleni. A strong, almost incestuous affection develops between the teenagers, resulting in twins who are given to a foster family. Also standing in the way of love is Spyros, determined to take his foster daughter as his wife. The lovers then decide to flee the village, persecuted by their father, leading a life of exile. As Alexis joins a group of musicians planning to go to the United States, Eleni regains custody of the twins. Angelopoulos, as in previous films, looks at the sacrifice of civilians confronted by the workers' demonstrations of 1935, the rule of Metaxas' fascist junta and forced emigration to America, and finally the civil war of 1944-1949.

Release Date2004-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count100

Istanbul Story

Katia’s unexpected journey to Istanbul traps her in a chain of adventures enacted on the front of her disrupted childhood. She discovers her mother’s secrets and faces her own inner desires and dilemmas.

Release Date2016-11-10

DepartmentWriting

JobStory Supervisor

5.7

Waiting for the Clouds

A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past.

Release Date2003-10-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count10

6.4

The Dust of Time

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy, Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Canada and the USA. The main character is Eleni, who is claimed and claims the absoluteness of love. At the same time the film is a long journey into the vast history and the events of the last fifty years that left their mark on the 20th century. The characters in the film move as though in a dream. The dust of time confuses memories. A searches for them and experiences them in the present.

Release Date2008-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count45

6.8

Alexander the Great

Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.

Release Date1980-09-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count25

4.0

Lovers Beyond Time

A fantasy film, featuring the weird relationship between attractive Sylvia and Angelos. The girl breaks up with him. Three years later she is married to a doctor and her life is upset by a series of unbelievable events, such as strange assassinations of her friends and her being inexplicably aroused, at the most inappropriate moments and occasions. This mysterious experiences stem from the presence of Angelos, who, having built a time-machine, wanders around in space-time, in order to eliminate those he sees as rivals and to make love to her.

Release Date1990-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

The Bleeding Statues

A group of minors escape from a reformatory and lock themselves in a museum on an island, threatening to destroy the statues if their demands are not met.

Release Date1982-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

2.0

Watch Out! Red Light

The occupation of students just before the Panhellenic effervescence inducing s`ena public high school in Piraeus. On the first day of the Panhellenic found dead in the toilets George, with a syringe stuck in the arm. All his friends swear that their informal leader never took drugs. The investigations are difficult and the youth does not show any willingness to cooperate.

Release Date2003-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Ανατομία ενός εγκλήματος
8.2

Ανατομία ενός εγκλήματος

Release Date1992-09-17

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Nykterino deltio

Nykterino deltio

This police TV series gets it's episode stories from a series of social everyday issues, revealing that reality sometines overcomes fantasy.

Release Date1998-10-06

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator