Léon G. Damas

Release Date: 1995-05-02

Overview: Léon G. Damas (1912–1978) was the first poet to “live Négritude”, according to the Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist Léopold Sédar Senghor. Cosmopolitan and always in transit, his writing is a chorus of melodies and imagery imbued with angst and melancholy and strongly influenced by jazz and blues. Punctuated by images of the landscapes of French Guiana and the voice of the artist, the film exemplifies the poetic documentary form to which Maldoror frequently returned.

Rating: 9 / 10

Cast

Léopold Sédar Senghor

as

Aimé Césaire

as

Georges Othily

as

Idriss Makward

as

Léon-Gontran Damas

as (voice)