Tonia Marketaki was a Greek film director

Film director

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 and screenwriter

Screenwriter

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. She was born in Pireas and spend many of her childhood years in the Zografou

Zografou

Zografou is a suburb in the eastern part of Athens, Greece. It is located about 5 km from downtown Athens, 2 km SW of Katechaki Avenue, 4 km from the Hymettus Ring forming part of the Attiki Odos private superhighway network, and 3 km E of Kifissias Avenue...

 district of Athens. Her maternal origins are from Kardamyla

Kardamyla

Kardamyla is a village and a former municipality on the island of Chios, North Aegean, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Chios, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located in the northeastern corner of the island, opposite the island of Oinousses to...

, in the island of Chios

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

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

Crystal Nights

Crystal Nights is a 1992 Greek drama film directed by Tonia Marketaki. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* François Delaive - Albert* Michele Valley - Isabella* Tania Tripi - Anna* Katerina Baka...

was screened in the Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard

Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

 section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival

1992 Cannes Film Festival

- Jury :*Gérard Depardieu *John Boorman *Carlo Di Palma *Jamie Lee Curtis *Joële Van Effenterre *Lester James Peries *Nana Djordjadze *Pedro Almodóvar *René Cleitman...

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Filmography

• O Giannis kai o Dromos - Ο Γιάννης και ο Δρόμος (Giannis and the Road), 1967
• Ioannis o Viaios - Ιωάννης ο Βίαιος (Ioannis the Violent), 1973
• I Timi tis Agapis - Η Τιμή της Αγάπης (The Price of Love), 1983
• Krystallines Nyhtes
  Crystal Nights
  Crystal Nights is a 1992 Greek drama film directed by Tonia Marketaki. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* François Delaive - Albert* Michele Valley - Isabella* Tania Tripi - Anna* Katerina Baka...
  
  - Κρυστάλλινες Νύχτες (Chrystal Nights), 1992

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