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.

Release date : 1976-04-27

Production country :
France

Production company :
Les Films de l'Homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Durasi : 13 Min.

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