Film · Drama, Documentary

And the Dogs Were Silent (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.

Director

Sarah Maldoror

Writers

Aimé Césaire

Country

France

Language

French

Release date

April 27, 1976

Original title

Et les chiens se taisaient