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And the Dogs Were Silent

And the Dogs Were Silent

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 27, 1976

Runtime

0h 13m

Genres

Documentary, Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

Et les chiens se taisaient

Production Companies

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

Director

Sarah Maldoror

Description

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.