Biography
Sarah Maldoror (19 July 1929 − 13 April 2020) was a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent. She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola.
After her studies, Maldoror, worked as an assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo's acclaimed film, The Battle of Algiers (1966). She also worked as an assistant to Algerian director Ahmed Lallem.
Maldoror's short film, Monangambee (1968), was set in Angola, based on a story by Angolan writer José Luandino Vieira. The title of this 17-minute film, Monangambée, refers to the call used by Angolan anti-colonial activists to signal a village meeting. The film was shot with amateur actors in Algeria. It tells the story of a poor woman who visits her husband, who is imprisoned in the city of Luanda. The film was selected for the Director's Fortnight at Cannes in 1971, representing Angola.
Her first feature film, Sambizanga (1972), was also based on a story by Vieira (A vida verdadeira de Domingos Xavier), and is set in 1961 at the onset of the Angolan War of Independence. Guardian film writer Mark Cousins included Sambizanga in a 2012 list of the ten best African films, calling it "as bold, as well-lit as Caravaggio paintings".
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Filmography
all 34
Movies 33
Director 26
self 5
TV Shows 1
Foreword to Guns for Banta (2011)
Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle (2010)
Eia pour Césaire (2009)
Ana Mercedes Hoyos (2009)
Voisins, voisines (2005)
Scala Milan AC (2005)
Les oiseaux mains (2005)
Regards de mémoire (2003)
Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema (2002)
Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie (1999)
Tribu du bois de l'E (1998)
Léon G. Damas (1995)
Le Passager du Tassili (1987)
Rencontre avec Assia Djebar (1987)
Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words (1987)
Portrait of an African Woman (1985)
Toto Bissainthe (1984)
L'hôpital de Leningrad (1983)
Dessert for Constance (1981)
Carnival in Bissau (1980)
Miró, The Painter (1979)
Un carnaval dans le Sahel (1979)
Fogo, Fire Island (1979)
Louis Aragon, a mask in Paris (1978)
Aimé Césaire at the End of Daybreak (1977)
Mosaïque (1976)
Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre (1976)
And the Dogs Were Silent (1976)
Sambizanga (1973)
Guns for Banta (1970)
Monangambeee (1969)
The Panafrican Festival in Algiers (1969)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Women (1966)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1929-07-19
Deathday2020-04-13 (90 years old)
Birth NameMarguerite Sarah Ducados
Birth PlaceCondom, France
CitizenshipsFrance
Also Known AsMarguerite Sarah Ducados
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