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 Count212

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 Count32

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 Count122

6.8

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 Count60

6.3

The Dust of Time

To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother to reunite with his musician father, his film spans more than half of the 20th century.

Release Date2008-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count48

10.0

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

Vote Count1

7.5

The Weeping Meadow

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, personal lives intersect with Greece’s major historical transformations. Space and time are in constant flux, while the characters remain trapped in an unending search for a homeland.

Release Date2004-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count103

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 Count27

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

4.6

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 Count7

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

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

6.1

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 Count12