Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror

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", alongside Toto Bissainthe, Timoti Bassori and Samb Abambacar. One of their goals is to share and make known the texts of black authors, and to offer major roles to actors of African origin. Sarah Maldoror left for two years in Moscow to study cinema at VGIK under the guidance of Mark Donskoï. There she met the Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Companion of Mário Pinto de Andrade, Angolan poet and politician, she participated with him in the African liberation struggles. They gave birth to two daughters, Annouchka de Andrade and Henda Ducados. She returned to France in Saint-Denis. Mario de Andrade is the founder and first president of the MPLA (Movement for the Liberation of Angola). While he was secretary to Alioune Diop, founder of Présence africaine, he organized the first congress of black writers and artists in Paris (Sorbonne, 1958) and became a close friend of the poets Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Frantz Fanon and Richard Wright. It was in Algiers, where she moved in 1966, that she made her debut on the cinematographic front of the anti-colonial struggles: assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers (1966) and William Klein's Pan-African Festival of Algiers 1969, a documentary, she soon made her first film, followed by a lost film shot in Guinea-Bissau and a first "fiction" feature film, Sambizanga (1972). Filmed in the Republic of Congo, based on an Angolan novel by José Luandino Vieira, adapted by his partner Pinto de Andrade with the French writer Maurice Pons, Sambizanga takes place in 1961 and describes the repression of the Angolan Liberation Movement from the point of view of Maria, the wife of a revolutionary activist imprisoned and tortured by the Portuguese army, who sets out to look for him across the country. Sarah Maldoror will direct more than forty short or feature-length films, fiction films or documentaries. Her gaze has focused in particular on the poets Aimé Césaire (five films), René Depestre or Louis Aragon, as well as the painters Ana Mercedes Hoyos, Joan Miró or Vlady. She died in April 2020 from Covid-19. In November 2021, "Sarah Maldoror, Cinéma Tricontinental" proposed by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, is a retrospective of her work, her life and her political commitment. The exhibition continues at the Musée de l'Homme, the Musée de l'Histoire de l'immigration and the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Paul Éluard in Saint-Denis.

  • Title: Sarah Maldoror
  • Popularity: 0.808
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1929-07-19
  • Place of Birth: Condom, France
  • Homepage: https://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_auteur_liste/13660
  • Also Known As: Marguerite Sarah Ducados, سارة مالدورور
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Sarah Maldoror Movies

  • 1999
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    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

    1 1999 HD

    Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie is a Togolese short documentary film directed by Anne-Laure Folly. It was released in 1999. The film is a...

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  • 1976
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    Mosaïque

    Mosaïque

    9 1976 HD

    Broadcast from 1977 to 1987 on FR3, every Sunday morning, for 1h30, Mosaïque is a variety show with a set where music groups from the countries...

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  • 1976
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    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    10 1976 HD

    Alternating interview segments, shots of Martinique landscapes and scenes from Aimé Césaire's play La Tragédie du roi Christophe...

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  • 2002
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    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

    1 2002 HD

    Exploring the extraordinary contributions of women filmmakers from Africa and the diaspora, Beti Ellerson’s engaging debut intersperses...

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  • 2005
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    Voisins, voisines

    Voisins, voisines

    4 2005 HD

    The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin, who has just been released from...

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  • 1976
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    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    6.5 1976 HD

    For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a...

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  • 2011
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    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    Foreword to Guns for Banta

    1 2011 HD

    Originally an analog slide show made for two projectors, this work recounts the making of Sarah Maldoror's lost and surely never-to-be-seen first...

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  • 2009
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    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

    10 2009 HD

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  • 1998
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    Tribu du bois de l'E

    Tribu du bois de l'E

    1 1998 HD

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  • 2003
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    Regards de mémoire

    Regards de mémoire

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1979
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    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    Un carnaval dans le Sahel

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1973
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    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

    6.9 1973 HD

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  • 1970
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    Guns for Banta

    Guns for Banta

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1985
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    Portrait of an African Woman

    Portrait of an African Woman

    1 1985 HD

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  • 1973
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    Sambizanga

    Sambizanga

    6.9 1973 HD

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  • 2009
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    Eia pour Césaire

    Eia pour Césaire

    10 2009 HD

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  • 1976
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    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    10 1976 HD

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  • 1968
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    Monangambeee

    Monangambeee

    6.8 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Monangambeee

    Monangambeee

    6.8 1968 HD

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  • 1981
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    Dessert for Constance

    Dessert for Constance

    5.5 1981 HD

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  • 1987
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    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Battle of Algiers

    The Battle of Algiers

    7.9 1966 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

    6 1969 HD

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  • 1976
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    And the Dogs Were Silent

    And the Dogs Were Silent

    6.5 1976 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Women

    The Women

    8 1966 HD

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  • 1976
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    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

    10 1976 HD

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  • 1995
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    Léon G. Damas

    Léon G. Damas

    9 1995 HD

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  • 1984
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    Toto Bissainthe

    Toto Bissainthe

    1 1984 HD

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  • 2005
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    Scala Milan AC

    Scala Milan AC

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1979
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    Miró, The Painter

    Miró, The Painter

    1 1979 HD

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  • 1987
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    Le Passager du Tassili

    Le Passager du Tassili

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1977
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    Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

    Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

    1 1977 HD

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  • 1978
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    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1980
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    Carnival in Bissau

    Carnival in Bissau

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1979
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    Fogo, Fire Island

    Fogo, Fire Island

    1 1979 HD

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  • 2005
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    Les oiseaux mains

    Les oiseaux mains

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2009
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    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    Ana Mercedes Hoyos

    1 2009 HD

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  • 1983
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    L'hôpital de Leningrad

    L'hôpital de Leningrad

    1 1983 HD

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  • 1983
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    L'hôpital de Leningrad

    L'hôpital de Leningrad

    1 1983 HD

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  • 2010
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    Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle

    Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle

    8 2010 HD

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