Hyenas (1992)
Hyènes
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
- Date of release
- 1992-09-18
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Djibril Diop Mambéty
Casting
- Djibril Diop Mambéty — The Judge
- Mansour Diouf — Dramaan
- Ami Diakhate — Linguere Ramatou
- Makhouredia Gueye — The Mayor
- Calgou Fall — The Priest
- Faly Gueye — Mme. Drameh
- Issa Samb — The Professor
- Omar Bah — Chief of Protocol
- Kaoru Egushi — Toko
- Mbaba Diop — Lord of the Feather
- Abdoulaye Diop — The Doctor
- Rama Thiaw — The Mayor's Wife
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Visit
Hyenas is a 1992 Senegalese film adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Swiss-German satirical tragicomedy play The Visit (1956), directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty. The intimate story of love and revenge parallels a critique of neocolonialism and African consumerism. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
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