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Hyenas [videorecording (DVD)].

Kino on Video, c2003.

Senegal -- Social life and customs -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Hyènes [videorecording (DVD)]

Ramatou [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1992.

Based on the play "Der Besuch der alten Dame" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

[Standard 1.33:1 full frame].

Alternate title information provided by IMDb = Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).

"Presented in Association with California Newsreel's Library of African Cinema"--Container.

In Wolof with English subtitles.

Kino International ; ADR Productions, Thelma Fil AG, Maag Daan, MK2 Productions S.A. ; produced by Alain Rozanes and Pierre-Alain Meier ; written and directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty.

Mansour Diouf and Ami Diakhate.

"Awash in the hypnotic colors and intoxicating sounds of West Africa, Hyenas is a wicked comedy by director Djibril Diop Mambety (Touki Bouki), depicting the devastating effects of greed on a small, poverty-stricken village. Dramaan Drameh (Mansour Diof) is a respected, convivial shopkeeper in the tiny village of Colobane. But a forgotten act of cruelty committed thirty years in his past comes back to haunt him when the young girl he impregnated and abandoned returns seeking revenge. Now a weary, calculating millionairess, Linguère Ramatou (Ami Diakhate) offers the citizens of Colobane her riches in exchange for just one thing: the life of the man who betrayed her. Dramaan's neighbors at first scoff at Lingere's gruesome offer but -- dazzled by the televisions, cigarettes and refrigerators Linguere's money can buy -- they begin to consider their allegiance to Colobane's once beloved merchant...and the"reign of the hyenas" begins. A shrew glimpse of human nature at its darkest, Hyenas has been celebrated by audiences around the world as a witty, acidic satire of consumer culture and its corruption of modern Africa. It was ingeniously adapted by Mambety from Swiss writer Fredrich Durrenmatt's play The Visit."--Container.

Satirical films.

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich. Besuch der alten Dame. English.

Diop Mambéty, Djibril, 1945-

Diouf, Mansour.

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