Tonia Marketaki

Tonia Marketaki (Greek: Τώνια Μαρκετάκη; 28 July 1942 – 26 July 1994) was a Greek film director and screenwriter.^[1][2][3][4] 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.

Tonia Marketaki
Τώνια Μαρκετάκη
Born	(1942-07-28)28 July 1942 Piraeus, Greece
Died	26 July 1994(1994-07-26) (aged 51)
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1960–1992

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.^[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. "MITTWOCH". Der Spiegel (in German). 3 November 1991. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
2. Koutsourakis, Angelos (8 October 2015). Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0911-7.
3. Speake, Graham (31 January 2021). Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. Routledge. p. 343. ISBN 978-1-135-94206-9.
4. Nelmes, Jill; Selbo, Jule (29 September 2015). Women Screenwriters: An International Guide. Springer. pp. 399–400. 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. "Feder, Cody".
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. Sloan, Jane (26 March 2007). Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women. Scarecrow Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-4616-7082-7.
12. Karalis, Vrasidas (2 February 2012). A History of Greek Cinema. A&C Black. pp. 148, 151–153. ISBN 978-1-4411-3500-1.
13. Poupou, Anna; Nikolaidou, Afroditi; Sifaki, Eirini (2014). World Film Locations: Athens. Intellect Books. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-78320-359-8.

External links

• Tonia Marketaki at IMDb