Tonia Marketaki

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Tonia Marketaki
Τώνια Μαρκετάκη
Born(1942-07-28)28 July 1942
Piraeus, Greece
Died26 July 1994(1994-07-26) (aged 51)
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter
Years active1960–1992

Tonia Marketaki (

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

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.[5][6]

Her final film Krystallines nyhtes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.[7] She died suddenly of a heart attack at age 51.[8]

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1992 Krystallines Nyhtes – Κρυστάλλινες Νύχτες (Chrystal Nights) [9]
1983 I Timi tis Agapis – Η Τιμή της Αγάπης (The Price of Love) [10][11]
1973 Ioannis o Viaios – Ιωάννης ο Βίαιος (Ioannis the Violent) [12][13]
1967 O Giannis kai o Dromos – Ο Γιάννης και ο Δρόμος (Giannis and the Road)

References

  1. ISSN 2195-1349
    . Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4744-0911-7
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1-135-94206-9
    .
  4. ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2
    .
  5. ^ "Film Archive of Greece". tainiothiki.gr. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  6. ^ "Citizen (Politis) local newspaper of Chios". politis-chios.gr. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
  7. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Crystal Nights". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  8. ^ https://biblionet.gr/%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%83%CF%89%CF%80%CE%BF/?personid=19854
  9. ^ "QUARANTE CINQUIEME FESTIVAL DE CANNES UN CERTAIN REGARD L'indispensable mémoire". Le Monde.fr (in French). 19 May 1992. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  10. ^ Thomas, Kevin (25 February 1985). "FEST TO FEATURE WOMEN FILM MAKERS". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  11. ISBN 978-1-4616-7082-7
    .
  12. ISBN 978-1-4411-3500-1
    .
  13. ISBN 978-1-78320-359-8
    .

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