Sarah Maldoror
Birthday
1929/07/19
Day of death
2020/04/13 (90 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Condom, France
Also know as
Marguerite Sarah Ducados, سارة مالدورور
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...Read more
Acting
(1999) Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie
as Self
(1976) Mosaïque
as Self
(1976) Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre
as Self
(2002) Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema
as Self
(2005) Voisins, voisines
as Mme Patisson
(1976) And the Dogs Were Silent
as ---
(2011) Foreword to Guns for Banta
as ---
(2010) Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle
as Self