Tonia Marketaki (; 28 July 1942 – 26 July 1994) was a Greek

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and

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. 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

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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

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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 section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. She died suddenly of a heart attack at age 51.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marketaki, Tonia 1942 births 1994 deaths Greek women film directors Greek women screenwriters 20th-century Greek screenwriters Writers from Piraeus Writers from Athens Institut des hautes études cinématographiques alumni