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Pétros Márkaris is a Actor and Scriptwriter Grec born on 1 january 1937 at Constantinople

Pétros Márkaris

Pétros Márkaris
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Birth name Πέτρος Μάρκαρης
Nationality Grece
Birth 1 january 1937 (87 years) at Constantinople

Pétros Márkaris (en grec : Πέτρος Μάρκαρης), né le 1er janvier 1937 à Istanbul en Turquie, est un écrivain, dramaturge, traducteur et scénariste grec vivant à Athènes. Il est notamment connu en France comme auteur de roman policier et est l'auteur du scénario du film L'Éternité et Un Jour de Theo Angelopoulos, Palme d'or du Festival de Cannes 1998.

Biography

Il naît à Istanbul d’un père arménien et d’une mère grecque. Il fait ses études secondaires à l’école autrichienne. Il parle couramment quatre langues et il se revendique cosmopolite. Scénariste de Theo Angelopoulos, il est aussi traducteur en grec de Goethe et de Frank Wedekind. Il est également considéré comme un spécialiste de Bertolt Brecht.

Auteur dramatique, il commence à 57 ans à écrire des romans policiers mettant en scène Athènes et la Grèce contemporaine, notamment avec sa série du commissaire Kostas Charitos, « flic désabusé, râleur et hargneux [...], déjà en poste durant l'époque des colonels. » Dans le roman intitulé Le Che s'est suicidé (O Tse autoktónīse, 2003), considéré par Claude Mesplède comme « le plus réussi de la série, Kostas Charitos demande à son chef d'enquêter officieusement sur la mort étrange et spectaculaire de Jason Phavieros qui s'est suicidé en direct à la télévision. Têtu et bougon, accablé par la chaleur et les embouteillages, Kostas va conduire son affaire patiemment, mais résolument pour tenter de comprendre le geste fatal de ce riche entrepreneur, ancien résistant à la junte des colonels qui fut torturé dans les prisons fascistes. »

Pétros Márkaris reçoit la médaille Goethe 2013.

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Filmography of Pétros Márkaris (9 films)

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Actor

Eternity and a Day, 2h10
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Michael Giannatos, Pétros Márkaris, Petros Fyssoun
Rating78% 3.9474753.9474753.9474753.9474753.947475
Alexander (Bruno Ganz), a bearded poet, leaves his seaside apartment in Thessaloniki after learning he has a terminal illness and must enter a hospital the next day for an unspecified "test". He is trying to get his affairs in order and find a new master for his dog.
Days of '36, 2h
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Pétros Márkaris, Giorgos Tzifos
Roles Murdered Trade Unionist
Rating68% 3.4392853.4392853.4392853.4392853.439285
En mai 1936, dans une Grèce secouée par de nombreux attentats politiques, un dirigeant syndicaliste est assassiné. Sofianos, un petit délinquant et contrebandier, informateur de la police et agent provocateur dans les manifestations de gauche est accusé du meurtre. Installé dans une chambre à part des autres détenus, il est maintenu au secret. Les seules personnes lui rendant visite sont un député du parti conservateur et son chauffeur, qui est aussi le frère de Sofianos. Un jour, celui-ci prend en otage le député, à l'intérieur de sa cellule, afin d'obtenir sa libération avant minuit, sans qu'on sache comment il s'est procuré le revolver dont il se sert ; à l'extérieur, les gardiens sont impuissants, tandis que le directeur de la prison subit de la part de son ministre de tutelle et des partis politiques, des pressions, parfois opposées, pour trouver rapidement une solution.

Scriptwriter

Alexander the Great, 3h55
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Omero Antonutti, Michael Giannatos, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996)
Roles Writer
Rating74% 3.735153.735153.735153.735153.73515
The film is based on the Dilesi Massacre of 1872 during which several bandits kidnapped British tourists and demanded a ransom. The film opens with a character named Alexander the Great who is the leader of the bandits being freed from prison.
The Dust of Time, 2h5
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama
Actors Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Michel Piccoli, Irène Jacob, Christiane Paul
Roles Writer
Rating64% 3.2467053.2467053.2467053.2467053.246705
In 1999, an American film director of Greek descent named A (Willem Dafoe) receives a phone call from his melancholic daughter at the Cinecittà studio. He rushes back to his apartment in Rome, where he finds a letter his mother, Eleni (Irène Jacob), wrote to his father, Spyros (Michel Piccoli), in 1956.
The Weeping Meadow, 2h50
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Michael Giannatos
Roles Writer
Rating78% 3.94383.94383.94383.94383.9438
The film revives themes of Angelopoulos' 1975 film The Travelling Players, and its events span from 1919 to the aftermath of World War II. It tells the story of Greek history through the sufferings of one family. A band of refugees that returns to Greece after the Russian Revolution adopts an orphaned girl, Eleni (Alexandra Aidini). Eleni becomes the focus of the story. The film follows her through adolescence and the marriage to her musician half-brother Alexis (Nikos Poursanidis). Eleni becomes pregnant by Alexis, and bears twin boys, who are sent away at birth. Many years later she is forced to marry her widowed adopted father. On her wedding day, Eleni escapes with Alexis to Thessaloniki, where they reunite with their sons. Their lives are then ripped apart by World War II and the ensuing Greek Civil War.
Waiting for the Clouds, 1h30
Directed by Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Origin German
Genres Drama
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2958953.2958953.2958953.2958953.295895
The neighbor´s son Mehmet is worried about the elderly woman Ayshe, and he likes hearing her stories. When Ayshe´s older sister dies she refuses to be with the other villager and starts searching for her younger brother in Greece. Waiting for the Clouds takes place in 1975 and Mehmet´s experience is based on the directors memory from the 70s. And the character Ayshe would not have had to keep her ethnic identity a secret for 50 years if she had lived in a tolerant environment.
Eternity and a Day, 2h10
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Michael Giannatos, Pétros Márkaris, Petros Fyssoun
Rating78% 3.9474753.9474753.9474753.9474753.947475
Alexander (Bruno Ganz), a bearded poet, leaves his seaside apartment in Thessaloniki after learning he has a terminal illness and must enter a hospital the next day for an unspecified "test". He is trying to get his affairs in order and find a new master for his dog.
Ulysses' Gaze, 2h56
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Road movies, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Thanasis Veggos, Ljuba Tadić, Dragan Maksimović
Rating75% 3.796553.796553.796553.796553.79655
A successful Greek filmmaker A (Harvey Keitel) is returning home and sets out on an epic journey across the battered Balkans in search of three lost reels of film by the Manaki brothers, the pioneering photographers who introduced movies into the Balkans at the beginning of the century.
The Suspended Step of the Stork, 2h23
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gerasimos Skiadaresis, Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Dimitris Poulikakos, Gregory Patrikareas
Roles Writer
Rating74% 3.7384053.7384053.7384053.7384053.738405
Alexandre, jeune reporter, est envoyé en mission près de la frontière albanaise où des réfugiés de diverses nationalités attendent de pouvoir traverser celle-ci. Alexandre croit reconnaître parmi eux une personnalité politique disparue mystérieusement dix années plus tôt.
The Travelling Players, 3h50
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Giorgos Tzifos
Rating78% 3.942413.942413.942413.942413.94241
A group of travelling players peregrinates through Greece attempting to perform the popular erotic drama Golfo The Shepherdess. In a first level the film focuses on the historical events between 1939 and 1952 as they are experienced by the travelling players and as they affect the villages which they visit: The last year of Metaxas' fascist dictatorship, the war against the Italians, the Nazi occupation, the liberation, the civil war between left and right wingers, the British and American interventionism in the Greek politics. In a second level the characters live their own drama of jealousy and betrayal, with its roots in the ancient myth of the House of Atreus. Agamemnon, a Greek refugee from Asia Minor, goes to war against the Italians in 1940, joins the resistance against the Germans, and is executed by them after being betrayed by Clytemnestra and Aegisthos. Aegisthos, Clytemnestra's lover, is an informer and collaborator working with the German occupiers. Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, fights on the side of the leftists, avenges his father's death by killing his mother and Aegisthos. He is arrested in 1949 for his guerrilla activities and is executed in prison in 1951. Electra, his sister, helps the leftists and aids her brother in avenging the treachery of their mother and Aegisthos. After the death of Orestes she continues the work of the troupe and her relationship with Pylades. Chrysotheme, Electra's younger sister, collaborates with the Germans, prostitutes herself during the occupation, sides with the British during liberation, and later marries an American. Pylades, close friend of Orestes, is a Communist who is exiled by the Metaxas regime, joins the guerrillas and is arrested and exiled again. Finally he is forced to sign a written denunciation of the left after torture by the right wing and he is released from prison in 1950.
Days of '36, 2h
Directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Origin Grece
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Christoforos Nezer (d. 1996), Pétros Márkaris, Giorgos Tzifos
Roles Writer
Rating68% 3.4392853.4392853.4392853.4392853.439285
En mai 1936, dans une Grèce secouée par de nombreux attentats politiques, un dirigeant syndicaliste est assassiné. Sofianos, un petit délinquant et contrebandier, informateur de la police et agent provocateur dans les manifestations de gauche est accusé du meurtre. Installé dans une chambre à part des autres détenus, il est maintenu au secret. Les seules personnes lui rendant visite sont un député du parti conservateur et son chauffeur, qui est aussi le frère de Sofianos. Un jour, celui-ci prend en otage le député, à l'intérieur de sa cellule, afin d'obtenir sa libération avant minuit, sans qu'on sache comment il s'est procuré le revolver dont il se sert ; à l'extérieur, les gardiens sont impuissants, tandis que le directeur de la prison subit de la part de son ministre de tutelle et des partis politiques, des pressions, parfois opposées, pour trouver rapidement une solution.