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Hyenas

Original title: Hyènes
1992 · 1 h 50 min
Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty
ComedyDrama

Cast

Ami Diakhate Mansour Diouf Mahouredia Gueye

Credits

Written by: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Plot

A rich woman returns to her poor Senegalese home town and offers the villagers a fortune if they kill the man who wronged her long ago. After Dürrenmatt's The Visit.

Sinekatalog’s take

Djibril Diop Mambéty's biting satire adapts Dürrenmatt's The Visit to a Senegalese town where a rich woman offers a fortune for a man's death. Colourful, savage and funny, it is a stinging parable of greed and postcolonial corruption.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.4 / 10 (1,607 votes)
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