Sarah Maldoror

Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on 19 July 1929 in Condom, in the Gers, to a Guadeloupean father. In Paris, in the fifties, she founded with other Black students the theatre company Les Griots, then left to study cinema in Moscow, where she met Ousmane Sembène. An assistant to Gillo Pontecorvo on a film about the Algerian war, she shared the life of the Angolan Mário Pinto de Andrade, a figure of the liberation movement. She directed more than forty films and died of covid-19 on 13 April 2020 in Fontenay-lès-Briis.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmSambizangaSarah Maldoror · 1972Cinema