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.

Released April 27, 1976 13 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short

Keywords: mdblist.two-actors, mdblist.imdb-short, tmdb.colonialism, tmdb.essay-film, tmdb.black-history, tmdb.theatre-company, tmdb.panafricanism, tmdb.aime-cesaire

Production Companies: Les Films de l'Homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Country: France
Languages: French