And the Dogs Were Silent

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.

Director

Sarah Maldoror

Written by

Aimé Césaire

Studio

Les Films de l'Homme

Released

27 April 1976

Genres

Documentary, Drama