And the Dogs Were Silent

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Aimé Césaire · Sarah Maldoror · Gabriel Glissant

Studios & networks

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Les Films de l'Homme