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And the Dogs Were Silent

Documentary, Drama | 1976-04-27 | France

IMDB6.5 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime13 min.

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.

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

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