And the Dogs Were Silent (1976)

And the Dogs Were Silent (1976) - Documentary Movies 13 minutes. Et les chiens se taisaient d'Aimé Césaire, And the Dogs Kept Silent. 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. colonialism, essay film, black history, theatre company, panafricanism, aimé césaire