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Senegal -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
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Senegal -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
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Hyenas [videorecording (
DVD
)].
Kino on Video, c2003.
Call #:
DVD
HYE
Subjects
Senegal -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
Series
Video Difference legacy collection.
Alternate title:
Hyènes [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Ramatou [videorecording (
DVD
)]
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)].
Description:
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
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.
Home use only.
In Wolof with English subtitles.
Production:
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.
Performers:
Mansour Diouf and Ami Diakhate.
Summary:
"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.
Genre:
African films.
Foreign films.
Satirical films.
Revenge films.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich. Besuch der alten Dame. English.
Diop Mambéty, Djibril, 1945-
Diouf, Mansour.
Diakhate, Ami.
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Feature DVDs
DVD HYE
Adult Dvds-7 Days
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