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Petros Markaris

Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1937 (89 years)
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.

Known For

  • Eternity and a Day
  • Ulysses' Gaze
  • Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow
  • The Dust of Time
  • The Suspended Step of the Stork
  • Alexander the Great
  • Waiting for the Clouds
  • Days of '36
  • Lovers Beyond Time
  • Kostas

Petros Markaris Filmography

2007
Zone Defence (TV Series) · as Locksmith
1998
1972
Days of '36 · as Murdered Trade Unionist

2024
Kostas (TV Series) · as Self
2007
Page 2 (TV Series) · as Self
2004
Kulturplatz (TV Series) · as Self
2003
Druckfrisch (TV Series) · as Self
1995
Metropolis (TV Series) · as Self
1992
ARD-Morgenmagazin (TV Series) · as Self

2016
Istanbul Story · as Story Supervisor
1995
Ulysses' Gaze · as Co-Writer

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