And the Dogs Were Silent

And the Dogs Were Silent

6.5/100h 13m1976
And the Dogs Were Silent

Overview

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.

Genres

DocumentaryDrama

Production Companies

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

Additional Information

Original Title:Et les chiens se taisaient
Original Language:French
Status:Released
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