Born Sarah Ducados in Condom, France, in 1929 to a Guadeloupean father, and dying in 2020, Sarah Maldoror took her name from Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror. She trained as an actress and studied film in Moscow, and worked with Algerian film-makers. She co-founded Les Griots, an African theatre company in Paris, and made films about the liberation of Africa. Sambizanga (1972), the first feature on the Angolan fight against Portuguese rule, based on a novel by Luandino Vieira, won the top prize at Carthage in 1972. She was married to the Angolan revolutionary Mário de Andrade.
Filmography
- Sambizanga (1972)