Sarah Maldoror, born Sarah Ducados in Condom, Gers, France is a black French film director.
She choose her artist's name in remembrance of The Songs of Madoror by Lautréamont. She attended a drama school in Paris. Together with her companion Mário Pinto de Andrade she received a scholarship and studied film with Mark Donskoi in Moscow in 1961-62 where she met Ousmane Sembène. She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the liberation struggle in Angola. She made a number of important documentaries too.
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