Papa Césaire

Shortly after his death in 2008, Maldoror made this film about her longtime friend and collaborator, the Négritude poet Aimé Césaire. In this film, she retraces the steps of Césaire’s travels across the globe — particularly back to his hometown in Martinique, where Maldoror interviews his relatives about his life — and her working relationship with Césaire, including fragments of her previous films about him, Un homme, une terre (1976) and Le masque des mots (1987).

Director: Sarah Maldoror

Cast: Aimé Césaire, Greg Germain, Annouchka de Andrade, Alex Haley, Maya Angelou, Léopold Sédar Senghor

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