And the Dogs Were Silent

• Rated 6.5 out of 10
• Movie
• 1976
• 13m
• Documentary
• Drama

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

Starring

Sarah Maldoror, Gabriel Glissant