
Hyenas
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.
Plot
Hyenas (Hyenas) tells the story of Linguere Ramatou, an aging, wealthy woman who revisits her home village of Colobane. Linguere offers a disturbing proposition to the people of Colobane and lavishes luxuries upon them to persuade them. This embittered woman, "as rich as the World Bank", will bestow upon Colobane a fortune in exchange for the murder of Dramaan Drameh, a local shopkeeper who abandoned her after a love affair and her illegitimate pregnancy when she was seventeen.
Cast
More details
author | Djibril Diop Mambéty Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
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director | Djibril Diop Mambéty |
editor | Loredana Cristelli |
genre | comedy |
keywords | abandon colobane disturb hyena love affair wealthy woman |
musicBy | Wasis Diop |
producer | Alain Rozanès Pierre-Alain Meier |
publisher | California Newsreel |
theme | tragicomedy |