And the Dogs Were Silent
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.
- Year: 1976
- Country: France
- Genre: Documentary, Drama
- Studio: Les Films de l'Homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Keyword: colonialism, essay film, black history, theatre company, panafricanism, aimé césaire
- Director: Sarah Maldoror
- Cast: Sarah Maldoror, Gabriel Glissant
