And the Dogs Were Silent (movie)
Et les chiens se taisaient- User score: 6.5
- Production country: France
- Producer: Sarah Maldoror
- Production companies: Les Films de l'Homme, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Genre: Documentary, Drama
- Release date: 4/27/1976
- Run time: 13 min.
Movie 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.
