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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.

Films


  • Des fusils pour Banta - Guns for Banta, 1970
  • Carnaval en guinée-Bissau - Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, 1971
  • Sambizanga, 1972
  • Un carneval dans le Sahel -Carnival in Sahel, 1977
  • Folgo, Ile de Feu
  • Et les chiens se taisaient - and the dogs kept silent
  • Un homme, une terre - A man, acountry
  • La Basilique de Saint-Denis
  • Un dessert pour Constance
  • Le cimetière du Père Lachaise
  • Miro
  • Albert Carliski
  • Robert Lapoujade, peintre
  • Toto bissainte, Chanteuse
  • René Depestre, poète
  • L'hôpital de Leningrad
  • La littérature tunisienne de la Bibliothèque nationlae
  • Un sénégalias en normandie
  • Robert doisneau, photographe
  • Le racisme au quotidien - Daily life racism, 1983
  • Le passager du tasili - the tassili passenger
  • Aimé Césaire, le masque des mots - Aimé Césaire, word as masks, 1986
  • Emmanuel Ungaro, couturier
  • Louis Aragon - Un masque à Paris
  • Vlady, peintre
  • Léon G. Damas
  • L'enfant-cinéma, 1997
  • La tribu du bois de l'é, 1998

Documentary about Sarah Maldoror


  • Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l’utopie by Anne Laure Folly, France /Togo.1998.

See also


Sarah Maldoror

 

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