Tonia Marketaki ( el, Τώνια Μαρκετάκη; 28 July 1942 – 26 July 1994) was a Greek
film director and
screenwriter. She was born in
Pireas
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and spent many of her childhood years in the
Zografou
Zografou ( el, Ζωγράφου) is a suburb of approximately 71,000 in the eastern part of the Athens agglomeration, Greece. It was named after the Greek politician Ioannis Zografos. To the east of Zografou lies mount Hymettus. The area, being ...
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
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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
(, meaning 'a certain glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.
The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
1992 Cannes Film Festival
The 45th Cannes Film Festival was held from 7 to 18 May 1992. The Palme d'Or went to the '' Den goda viljan'' by Bille August.
The festival opened with ''Basic Instinct'', directed by Paul Verhoeven and closed with ''Far and Away'', directed by R ...
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Filmography
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1942 births
1994 deaths
Greek film directors
Greek screenwriters
20th-century screenwriters
Writers from Piraeus
Writers from Athens