And the Dogs Were Silent
1976•13m•6.5•Released
DocumentaryDrama
For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.
Director
Sarah Maldoror
Writer
Aimé Césaire
Languages
French
Studio
Les Films de l'Homme
Cast
Sarah Maldoror
Gabriel Glissant
Production
Company
Les Films de l'Homme
Company
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Recommended
7.2
In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
6.9
All That Breathes
2022
6.4
Lumière & Company
1995
6.3
The Image Book
2018
7.4
McQueen
2018
6.9
Sidney
2022
7.2
Blue
1993
7.1
The Class of ‘92
2013
7.3
Van Gogh: Painted with Words
2010
6.5
Dahomey
2024
7.8
OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)
2022
7.4
Four Daughters
2023
6.9
The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
2026
6.7
Tongues Untied
1990
7.1
Behind the Planet of the Apes
1998
6.4
The Captains
2011
6.1
Atlantiques
2009
7.5
28 Up
1984
6.9
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
7.2
Seven Up!
1964
Similar Movies
6
Pictures
1981
5
Metropia
2025
A Letter to Claudette Colvin
2017
Oh, to Be Able to Speak!
2024
Radical Self Acceptance
2021
Sarasota Half in Dream
2017
10
Gerboise Bleue
2009
Die Liebe stört der kalte Tod
2026
#movieofmylife
2017
What I Learned at the Harun Farocki Residency
2017
Rastros que Deixamos
2021
7.5
White Ghosts
2004
Accursed Effigy
2024
Colonial Times
1976
6.4
Greased Lightning
1977
10
Yasmina
1961
7
Nonstop
2002
Voices from the Chorus
2026
9
Watching the Pain of Others
2019
6.1
The 24th
2020