And the Dogs Were Silent (1976)

And the Dogs Were Silent

1976

Documentary Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Sarah Maldoror

Cast

Gabriel Glissant

Sarah Maldoror

Crew

Daniel Cavillon (Cinematography)

Maurice Perimont (Cinematography)

Vincent Blanchet (Cinematography)

Bernard Favre (Editor)

Simone Jousse (Editor)