Hyènes (1992)

Directed by

Djibril Diop Mambéty

Genre

comedy film

Country

Senegal, France

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy woman returns to her hometown offering a fortune, but the townspeople soon realize her gift comes with a terrible condition tied to a past betrayal. The community faces a moral choice that exposes greed and desperation.

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What happens

Hyenas (French: Hyènes) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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