- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- July 19, 1929
- Place of Birth
- Condom, France
- Died
- April 13, 2020
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 m…
Filmography
movieMário
2024
movieForeword to Guns for Banta
2011
Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1
movieAfrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1
2010 · self
tvAfrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle
2010 · Self
moviePapa Césaire
2009 · Director, Writer
movieAna Mercedes Hoyos
2009 · Director
movieVoisins, voisines
2005 · Mme Patisson
movieScala Milan AC
2005 · Director
movieLes oiseaux mains
2005 · Director
movieMemory's Gaze
2003 · Director
movieSisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
2002 · Self
movieSarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
1999 · Self
movieTribu du bois de l'E
1998 · Director
movieL'Enfant cinéma
1996 · Director, Writer
movieLéon G. Damas
1995 · Director
movieVlady
1989 · Director
movieRobert Doisneau, photographe
1987 · Director
movieLe Passager du Tassili
1987 · Director
movieRencontre avec Assia Djebar
1987 · Director
movieAimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
1987 · Director
movieFirst International Conference for Black Women
1986 · Director
movieA Senegalese Man in Normandy
1986 · Director
movieTunisian Literature at the French National Library
1986 · Director
moviePoint Virgule
1986 · Director
movieAlberto Carlisky
1986 · Director
moviePoint Virgule, Youth Journal
1986 · Director
moviePortrait of Christiane Diop
1985 · Director
moviePortrait of an African Woman
1985 · Director
moviePublic Writer
1985 · Director
movieClaudel in Reims
1984 · Director
movieToto Bissainthe
1984 · Director
movieRobert Lapoujade, peintre
1984 · Director
movieThe Hospital of Leningrad
1983 · Director, Writer
movieEmanuel Ungaro
1982 · Director
movieA Dessert for Constance
1981 · Director
movieRené Depestre, poète haïtien
1981 · Director
movieWielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor
1980 · Director
Carnival in Bissau
movieCarnival in Bissau
1980 · Director
movieWifredo Lam
1980 · Director, Writer
movieOpening of the Theater Noir in Paris
1980 · Director
movieMiró, The Painter
1979 · Director
movieCarnival in the Sahel
1979 · Director
movieFogo, Fire Island
1979 · Director
movieForeign-Inspired Architecture in Paris
1979 · Director
movieLouis Aragon, a mask in Paris
1978 · Director
moviePère Lachaise Cemetery
1978 · Director, Writer
movieAimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak
1977 · Director
movieThe Basilica of Saint-Denis
1977 · Director, Writer
movieMosaïque
1976 · Self
movieAimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
1976 · Self, Writer, Director
movieAnd the Dogs Were Silent
1976 · , Director
movieSambizanga
1973 · Director, Script
movieSaint-Denis-sur-Avenir
1972 · Director, Writer
movieGuns for Banta
1970 · Director
movieThe Pan-african Festival in Algiers
1969 · Assistant Director
movieMonangambeee
1968 · Director, Writer
movieThe Battle of Algiers
1966 · Assistant Director, Creative Consultant
movieThe Women
1966 · Assistant Director