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

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 Date: 2008-11-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 42

Murder at Agora

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

Release Date: 2007-03-23

Character: Self (uncredited)

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 Date: 2004-02-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 94

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 Date: 2003-11-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 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 Date: 2003-10-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 9

Eternity and a Day

An ailing Greek man attempts to take a young, illegal Albanian immigrant home.

Release Date: 1998-10-23

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Character:

Vote Count: 189

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 Date: 1998-10-06

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

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 Date: 1995-10-12

Department: Writing

Job: Co-Writer

Vote Count: 110

Ανατομία ενός εγκλήματος

Release Date: 1992-09-17

Department: Creator

Job: Creator

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 1991-12-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 54

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 Date: 1990-03-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 5

Το αίμα των αγαλμάτων

Release Date: 1982-10-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

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 Date: 1980-09-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 23

Days of '36

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

Release Date: 1972-09-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Murdered Trade Unionist

Vote Count: 28