Sarah Maldoror, born Sarah Ducados in Gers

Gers

The Gers is a department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the southwest of France named after the Gers River.Inhabitants are called les Gersois or Gersoises.-History:...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, is a French film director.

Maldoror choose her artist's name in remembrance of The Songs of Maldoror by Lautréamont. She attended a drama school in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. Together with her companion Mário Pinto de Andrade

Mário Pinto de Andrade

Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade was an Angolan poet and politician.He was born in Golungo-Alto, in Portuguese Angola, and studied philology at the University of Lisbon and sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris...

 she received a scholarship and studied film with Mark Donskoi

Mark Donskoi

Mark Semyonovich Donskoy was a Soviet film director. His most famous work was the Gorky Trilogy, consisting of The Childhood of Maxim Gorky, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities.-Selected filmography:...

 in Moscow in 1961-62 where she met Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène , often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer...

. She is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961-1974 war

Portuguese Colonial War

The Portuguese Colonial War , also known in Portugal as the Overseas War or in the former colonies as the War of liberation , was fought between Portugal's military and the emerging nationalist movements in Portugal's African colonies between 1961 and 1974, when the Portuguese regime was...

 in Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

.

Filmography

• Des fusils pour Banta - Guns for Banta, 1970
• Carnaval en guinée-Bissau - Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, 1971
• Sambizanga
  Sambizanga (film)
  Sambizanga was a 1972 film produced by Sarah Maldoror on the Angolan War of Independence. It was first released in Portugal after the carnation revolution in October 1974.-Awards:* Maldoror won a Tanit d'or at the 1972 Carthage Film Festival...
  
  , 1972
• Un carneval dans le Sahel -Carnival in Sahel, 1977
• Folgo, Ile de Feu
• Et les chiens se taisaient - and the dogs kept silent
• Un homme, une terre - A man, accountry
• La Basilique de Saint-Denis
• Un dessert pour Constance
• Le cimetière du Père Lachaise
• Miro
• Lauren
• Robert Lapoujade, peintre
• Toto bissainte, Chanteuse
• René Depestre
  René Depestre
  René Depestre is a Haitian poet and communist. He lived in Cuba as an exile from the Duvalier regime for many years and was a founder of the Casa de las Americas publishing house. He is best known for his poetry.-Life:...
  
  , poète
• L'hôpital de Leningrad
• La littérature tunisienne de la Bibliothèque nationlae
• Un sénégalias en normandie
• Robert doisneau, photographe
• Le racisme au quotidien - Daily life racism, 1983
• Le passager du tasili - the tassili passenger
• Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Césaire
  Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...
  
  , le masque des mots - Aimé Césaire, word as masks, 1986
• Emmanuel Ungaro, couturier
• Louis Aragon - Un masque à Paris
• Vlady, peintre
• Léon G. Damas
• L'enfant-cinéma, 1997
• La tribu du bois de l'é, in the time of people

Documentary about Sarah Maldoror

• Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l’utopie by Anne Laure Folly, France /Togo.1998.

External links

• African Women in Cinema profile