Years active 1960–1992 Name Tonia Marketaki | Role Film director Died July 26, 1994 | |
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Born 28 July 1942 ( 1942-07-28 ) Athens, Greece Occupation Film director, screenwriter Movies Crystal Nights, John the Violent Similar People Malvina Karali, Tania Tripi, Kostas Arzoglou, Michele Valley, Vangelis Kazan | ||
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Tonia Marketaki (Greek: Τώνια Μαρκετάκη; 28 July 1942 – 26 July 1994) was a Greek film director and screenwriter. She was born in Pireas and spend many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens. Her maternal origins are from Kardamyla, in the island of Chios.
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She received her formal training at IDHEC in Paris and upon her return to Greece she worked as a film critic in various newspapers from 1963 until 1967. The same year sees the completion of her first short-film creation and subsequent imprisonment by the then recently established Colonels' regime. Upon her release Marketaki fled abroad, working as an assistant editor in the U.K. and a director of educational films for illiterate farmers in Algeria.
In 1971 she again returned to her home-country. Apart from her three full-length films, she also directed a number of theatrical plays and a television series called Lemonodasos.
Her final film Krystallines nyhtes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.