Name: And the Dogs Were Silent
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 1976-04-27
Duration: 13 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Sarah Maldoror, Gabriel Glissant

DocumentaryDrama

Overview

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.