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Sarah Maldoror
Sign in to saveAlso known as Sarah Durados, Marguerite Sarah Durados, Marguerite Durados
French film director (1929-2020)
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- Wexner Center for the Arts Sarah Maldoror
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Film & TV
Condom, France
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…
Known for
- Mário2024
- Foreword to Guns for Banta2011
- Afrique[s], une autre histoire du XXème siècle - Acte 1 — self2010
- Afrique(s), une autre histoire du XXème siècle — Self2010
- Voisins, voisines — Mme Patisson2005
- Sisters of the Screen - African Women in the Cinema — Self2002
- Sarah Maldoror ou la nostalgie de l'utopie — Self1999
- Mosaïque — Self1976
- Aimé Césaire, Un homme une terre — Self1976
- And the Dogs Were Silent1976
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sarah
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Condom
- Place of death
- Fontenay-lès-Briis
- Spouse
- Mário Pinto de Andrade
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Sambizanga
- Participant in
- 1973 Cannes Film Festival
- Image
- Sarah Maldoror.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Significant event
- COVID-19 pandemic in France
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- date of birth
- 1929-07-19
- birth name
- Marguerite Sarah Ducados
- date of death
- 2020-04-13
- Commons category
- Sarah Maldoror
- cause of death
- COVID-19
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Sarah Maldoror
- interested in
- decolonization
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