Markheim (1972)

Name: Markheim
Director: Janusz Majewski
Genre: TV Movie, Horror
Released: 1972-01-28
Duration: 25 min
Cast: Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Kamas, Grażyna Długołęcka, Aleksander Iwaniec

TV Movie Horror

Director: Janusz Majewski

Cast: Aleksander Bardini, Jerzy Kamas, Grażyna Długołęcka, Aleksander Iwaniec

Runtime25 min

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During a botched robbery, Markheim murders an elderly antique dealer. Consumed by guilt and confusion, he begins to lose his grip on reality until a spectral dog leads him to a mysterious figure who knows all his secrets. Based on the short story by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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"Markheim" is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, originally prepared for the Pall Mall Gazette in 1884, but published in 1885 in The Broken Shaft: Tales of Mid-Ocean as part of Unwin's Christmas Annual. The story was later published in Stevenson's collection The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables (1887).