Sarah Maldoror
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Sarah Maldoror, born Sarah Ducados in 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.
[edit] Filmography
- 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
- Lauren
- 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, in the time of people
[edit] Documentary about Sarah Maldoror
- Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l’utopie by Anne Laure Folly, France /Togo.1998.
