Sarah Maldoror, filmmaker
Sarah Maldoror a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent died on 13 April 2020, at the age of 90, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.
Maldoror is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola.
Born Sarah Durados in 1929 in Condom, Gers, the daughter of emigrants from Guadeloupe, she chose her artist's name in remembrance of Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautréamont.
She attended a drama school in Paris. Together with her husband, Angolan nationalist Mário Pinto de Andrade, she received a scholarship and studied film with Mark Donskoi in Moscow in 1961–62 where she met Ousmane Sembène.
After her studies, Maldoror, worked as an assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo's acclaimed film, The Battle of Algiers (1966). She also worked as an as...