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One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki (1973) is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Du?rrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’s imagining follows a now-rich woman returning 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. Per its title, Hyenas is a film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism. New 2K Restoration. Restored in 2018 by Thelma Film AG with the support of Cinémathèque suisse, at Eclair Cinema, from the original negative.
Original Release
09/18/1992
US Release
04/26/2019
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mansour Diouf | Dramaan / Dramaan Drameh |
Ami Diakhate | Linguère Ramatou / Linguere Ramatou |
Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye | Le Maire |
Djibril Diop Mambéty | Gaana / The Judge |
Omar Ba | Le chef du protocole |
Issa Samb | Le Professeur / The Professor |
Faly Gueye | Mme. Drameh / Madame Drameh |
Rama Thiaw | The Mayor's Wife / La femme du Maire |
Calgou Fall | Le Prêtre / The Priest |
Kaoru Egushi | Toko |
Directors
Writers
Djibril Diop Mambéty, Friedrich Durrenmatt
Cast
Name | Character |
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Mansour Diouf | Dramaan / Dramaan Drameh |
Ami Diakhate | Linguère Ramatou / Linguere Ramatou |
Mamadou Mahourédia Gueye | Le Maire |
Djibril Diop Mambéty | Gaana / The Judge |
Omar Ba | Le chef du protocole |
Issa Samb | Le Professeur / The Professor |
Faly Gueye | Mme. Drameh / Madame Drameh |
Rama Thiaw | The Mayor's Wife / La femme du Maire |
Calgou Fall | Le Prêtre / The Priest |
Kaoru Egushi | Toko |
Mbaba Diop | Le Seigneur de la Plume / Lord of the Feather |
Abdoulaye Diop | Le Médecin / The Doctor |
Oumi Samb | La danseuse / Dancer |
Tcheley Hanny | Amazone / Horse Woman |
Makhouredia Gueye | The Mayor |
Omar Bah | Chief of Protocol |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Samba Félix Ndiaye | Executive Producer |
Djibril Diop Mambéty | Producer |
Philippe Berthet | Producer |
Pierre-Alain Meier | Producer |
Alain Rozanès | Producer |
Martin Schmassmann | Producer |
Rod Stoneman | Producer |