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And the Dogs Were Silent

6.5Apr 27, 19760h 13mDocumentaryDrama

Directed by Sarah Maldoror

Written by Aimé Césaire

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.

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Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror

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Gabriel Glissant

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