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Tonia Marketaki

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Female

Birthday
July 28, 1942 (83 years old)

Place of Birth
Piraeus, Greece

Tonia Marketaki

Biography

Tonia Marketaki (Greek: Τώνια Μαρκετάκη; 28 July 1942 – 26 July 1994) was a Greek film director and screenwriter. She was born in Pireas and spent many of her childhood years in the Zografou district of Athens. Her maternal origins are from Kardamyla, in the island of Chios.

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. She died suddenly of a heart attack two days before her 52nd birthday.

Known For

Directing

1992Crystal Nights...Director
1984The Price of Love...Director
1978Lemon grove...Director
1973John the Violent...Director
1967Giannis and the Road...Director

Writing

1992Crystal Nights...Writer
1992Crystal Nights...Idea
1984The Price of Love...Screenplay
1973John the Violent...Screenplay
1967Giannis and the Road...Writer

Sound

1992Crystal Nights...Sound Editor

Creator

1978Lemon grove...Creator

Production

1973John the Violent...Producer
1967Giannis and the Road...Producer

Acting

1974Kierionas