Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror, born Sarah Ducados in Gers, France, is a French film director.

Maldoror choose her artist's name in remembrance of The Songs of Maldoror 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 1961-1974 war in Angola.^[1]

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, accountry
• 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

Documentary about Sarah Maldoror

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

See also

• Women's Cinema

References

1. ^ "Angola: Brutality Betrayal". Village Voice. 6 December 1973. http://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=pFQQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MowDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6244,5229471&dq=sarah-maldoror&hl=en. Retrieved 5 August 2010. ^{[dead link]}

• Sarah Maldoror Le parcours de la combattante L'Humanité February 2001 (French)

External links

• Sarah Maldoror at the Internet Movie Database
• African Women in Cinema profile

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