HYENAS

Showings

THEATER 1 Wed, Feb 4 6:00 PM
THEATER 1 Sun, Feb 8 12:00 PM
Film Info
Runtime:110
Release Year:1992
Genre:Drama
Comedy
Production Country:Senegal
Switzerland
France
United Kingdom
Original Language:French
Japanese
Wolof
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cast:Mansour Diouf
Ami Diakhate
Makhouredia Gueye
Calgou Fall
Faly Gueye
Screenwriter:Djibril Diop Mambéty

Description

Linguère Ramatou returns to her impoverished Senegalese hometown of Colobane after decades abroad, now fabulously wealthy. She offers the townspeople an extraordinary bargain: she will give them billions in exchange for the death of Draman Drameh, the local shopkeeper who seduced and abandoned her in youth, denying paternity of their child. Initially horrified, the townspeople gradually succumb to material temptation, accumulating consumer goods on credit against the expected windfall. Mambéty adapts Dürrenmatt's "The Visit" into a satirical allegory about Africa's relationship with global capitalism, structural adjustment, and moral compromise. The film's theatrical style and bitter humor expose how economic desperation transforms community solidarity into collective complicity.