Sarah Maldoror
Directing
July 19, 1929
Died April 13, 2020 (90 years old)
Condom, France
10
Acting Credits
47
Directed
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
Filmography
Mário
2024
10
Foreword to Guns for Banta
2011
Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1
2010
as self
Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle
2010
as Self
8
Voisins, voisines
2005
as Mme Patisson
5.3
Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
2002
as Self
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
1999
as Self
9
Mosaïque
1976
as Self
9
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
1976
as Self
10
And the Dogs Were Silent
1976
6.5