And the Dogs Were Silent
- Movies
- 1976-04-27
- FR
- Released
- 0h 13m
- Documentary - Drama
Production
Les Films de l'Homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Storyline
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.
