And the Dogs Were Silent

Documentary · 1976

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.

Starring

Bernard Favre, Sarah Maldoror, Sarah Maldoror, Gabriel Glissant, Vincent Blanchet, Henri Roux, Aimé Césaire

Director

Sarah Maldoror