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name: "Nikos Perakis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nikos-perakis"
fi1m_id: "nikos-perakis"
imdb_id: "nm0672704"
tmdb_id: 36970
wikidata_id: "Q1992040"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "11 September 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T00:42:06.148259+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Nikos Perakis

## Identity

Nikos Perakis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nikos-perakis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nikos-perakis
- **IMDb ID:** nm0672704
- **TMDB ID:** 36970
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1992040
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Perakis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1992040, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672704/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36970

Production designer. Born 11 September 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 11 September 1944, Alexandria, Egypt
- **Also known as:** Nicos Perakis, Νίκος Περάκης
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Perakis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1992040, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0672704/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/36970

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Tin Drum*](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md) (78)

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## Biography

Nikos Perakis (also credited as Nicos Perakis) is a Greek film director, screenwriter and production designer. He was born on 11 September 1944 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Greek parents and studied costume and stage design at the Fine Arts Academy of Munich from 1962 to 1966.

Perakis began his career as a set and costume designer in Germany, working on films including Volker Schlöndorff’s *The Tin Drum* (1979). He made his debut as a director in the early 1970s and is known for satirical comedies such as *Bomber & Paganini* (1976) and *Loafing and Camouflage* (1984), the latter screened at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival. From the 1980s he has worked primarily in Greece.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nikosperakis.gr, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Tin Drum* (1979), Fi1m 78, Production Design, Art Direction, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Success Story* (2017), Director
- *Loafing and Camouflage: Sirens at Land* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Artherapy* (2010), Director, Writer
- *Cool* (2007), Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
- *Λούφα Και Παραλλαγή* (2006), series, Director, Writer
- *Sirens in the Aegean* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Σχεδόν ποτέ* (2003), series, Director
- *Liza and All the Others* (2003), Director
- *The Bubble* (2002), Director, Writer
- *Athens Blues* (2001), Thanks
- *Female Company* (1999), Director, Writer, Producer
- *Pater Familias* (1997), Writer, Director
- *Voyager* (1991), Production Design
- *Silence Like Glass* (1989), Production Design
- *Living Dangerously* (1987), Director, Writer
- *Devil's Paradise* (1987), Set Designer
- *Mania* (1985), as Art Direction
- *Loafing and Camouflage* (1984), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Sudden Love* (1984), as Set Decoration · Set Designer
- *Arpa Colla* (1982), Director, Writer, Producer
- *A Foolish Love* (1981), as Art Direction
- *Angels of Iron* (1981), as Art Direction
- *Milo-Milo* (1979), Director, Screenplay, Co-Producer
- *Honeymoon* (1979), Thanks
- *The Tin Drum* (1979), as Art Direction · Production Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tin-drum.md)
- *Good-for-Nothing* (1978), Costume Design, Production Design
- *Bomber & Paganini* (1976), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Berlinger* (1975), Production Design
- *Lina Braake* (1975), Production Design
- *Die Wohngenossin* (1975), Director
- *The Brutalization of Franz Blum* (1974), Production Design
- *A Free Woman* (1972), Production Design
- *The Golden Thing* (1972), Director, Writer, Production Design

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