Sarah Maldoror

ActorDirectorWriterCrewDirecting Jul 19 (died age 90) Condom, France 1966–2011 (45 year career)

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Biography

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 homag…

Known For

Film

The Battle of Algiers

Assistant Director

Film

Sambizanga

Director

Film

Monangambeee

Director

Film

A Dessert for Constance

Director

Film

The Women

Assistant Director

Film

And the Dogs Were Silent

6.5 1976

Film

Papa Césaire

Director

Film

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

Self

Filmography

Acting (9)

Movies (8)

Foreword to Guns for Banta

2011

Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1

2010

as self

Voisins, voisines

2005

as Mme Patisson

4.0

Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema

2002

as Self

Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie

1999

as Self

And the Dogs Were Silent

Mosaïque

as Self

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

1976

as Self

10.0

Television (1)

Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle

2010

as Self

8.0

Crew (61)

Movies (61)

Papa Césaire

Director

Papa Césaire

Writer

Ana Mercedes Hoyos

Director

Scala Milan AC

2005

Director

Les oiseaux mains

2005

Director

Memory's Gaze

2003

Director

Tribu du bois de l'E

1998

Director

L'Enfant cinéma

Director

L'Enfant cinéma

Writer

Léon G. Damas

Director

Vlady

Director

Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words

1987

Director

Robert Doisneau, photographe

1987

Director

Rencontre avec Assia Djebar

1987

Director

Le Passager du Tassili

1987

Director

First International Conference for Black Women

1986

Director

Point Virgule, Youth Journal

1986

Director

Emanuel Ungaro

1986

Director

Point Virgule

1986

Director

Alberto Carlisky

1986

Director

Tunisian Literature at the French National Library

1986

Director

A Senegalese Man in Normandy

1986

Director

Portrait of Christiane Diop

1985

Director

Public Writer

1985

Director

Portrait of an African Woman

1985

Director

Toto Bissainthe

1984

Director

Claudel in Reims

1984

Director

Robert Lapoujade, peintre

1984

Director

The Hospital of Leningrad

1983

Director

The Hospital of Leningrad

1983

Writer

René Depestre, poète haïtien

1982

Director

A Dessert for Constance

1981

Director

5.7

Opening of the Theater Noir in Paris

1980

Director

Carnival in Bissau

1980

Director

Wifredo Lam

1980

Director

Wifredo Lam

1980

Writer

Wielopole, Wielopole as Staged by Kantor

1980

Director

Carnival in the Sahel

1979

Director

Foreign-Inspired Architecture in Paris

1979

Director

Fogo, Fire Island

1979

Director

Miró, The Painter

1979

Director

Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris

1978

Director

Père Lachaise Cemetery

1978

Director

Père Lachaise Cemetery

1978

Writer

Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak

1977

Director

The Basilica of Saint-Denis

1977

Director

The Basilica of Saint-Denis

1977

Writer

And the Dogs Were Silent

1976

Director

6.5

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

1976

Director

10.0

Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre

Writer

Sambizanga

Director

Sambizanga

Script

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

1972

Director

Saint-Denis-sur-Avenir

1972

Writer

Guns for Banta

1970

Director

The Panafrican Festival in Algiers

Assistant Director

Monangambeee

Director

Monangambeee

Writer

The Battle of Algiers

1966

Assistant Director

7.9

The Battle of Algiers

Creative Consultant

The Women

Assistant Director