Directing · b. 1929 · Condom, France

Sarah Maldoror

Biography

Sarah Maldoror (in Arabic: سارة مالدورور), whose real name was Marguerite Sarah Ducados, was a French filmmaker and director, born on July 19, 1929 in Condom (Gers) and died on April 13, 2020 in Fontenay-lès-Briis (Essonne). Her cinema is poetic but also political and committed. She is considered a leading figure in African cinema and the first female director on the continent. Born to a Guadeloupean father from Marie-Galante and a mother from Gers, she chose the artist name "Maldoror" in homage to the poet Lautréamont. In 1958, she created the first black troupe in Paris, "Les Griots", along...

Directed
Papa Césaire 2009 Ana Mercedes Hoyos 2009 Scala Milan AC 2005 Les oiseaux mains 2005 Memory's Gaze 2003 Tribu du bois de l'E 1998 L'Enfant cinéma 1996 Léon G. Damas 1995 Vlady 1989 Rencontre avec Assia Djebar 1987 Le Passager du Tassili 1987 Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words 1987 Robert Doisneau, photographe 1987 Point Virgule 1986 First International Conference for Black Women 1986 A Senegalese Man in Normandy 1986 Alberto Carlisky 1986 Tunisian Literature at the French National Library 1986 Point Virgule, Youth Journal 1986 Portrait of an African Woman 1985 Portrait of Christiane Diop 1985 Public Writer 1985 Toto Bissainthe 1984 Claudel in Reims 1984 Robert Lapoujade, peintre 1984 The Hospital of Leningrad 1983 Emanuel Ungaro 1982 A Dessert for Constance 1981 René Depestre, poète haïtien 1981 Carnival in Bissau 1980 Wifredo Lam 1980 Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor 1980 Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris 1980 Carnival in the Sahel 1979 Miró, The Painter 1979 Fogo, Fire Island 1979 Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris 1979 Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris 1978 Père Lachaise Cemetery 1978 Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak 1977 The Basilica of Saint-Denis 1977 And the Dogs Were Silent 1976 Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre 1976 Sambizanga 1973 Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir 1972 Guns for Banta 1970 Monangambeee 1968
Acting
Foreword to Guns for Banta 2011 Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1 self 2010 Voisins, voisines Mme Patisson 2005 Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema Self 2002 Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie Self 1999 Mosaïque Self 1976
Other Credits
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers Assistant Director 1969 The Battle of Algiers Assistant Director 1966 The Women Assistant Director 1966
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