Petros Markaris

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Jan 01, 1937 (88 years old)

Petros Markaris

Known For

Murder at Agora
0h 56m
Movie 2007

Murder at Agora

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

Eternity and a Day
2h 13m
Movie 1998

Eternity and a Day

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

Biography

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.

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