Hyenas

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Hyenas

1992

1h 50m

Comedy

Drama

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11 Reviews

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After being kicked out of her African village three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Linguere (Ami Diakhate) has returned home. While Linguere has done well for herself, her home village has fallen on hard economic times. Intent on punishing Dramaan (Mansour Diouf), the man who fathered her child but refused to own up to the act, Linguere makes a proposal: She will help the town financially, if the locals agree to execute Dramaan.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Jun 7, 2022

3/4

Mambety doesn’t just point to the evil but fully implicates himself in it–as is shown by the fact that he himself plays the former judge now working as a servant to the rich. Maybe he’s saying something about making movies as well.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

Jul 18, 2020

Mambety makes the source material his own, in vivid, witty images.

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

Apr 25, 2019

A wicked skewering of both the rich and those who seek their handouts.

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Jas Keimig

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

Feb 2, 2022

The film falls somewhere between satire, drama, and comedy.

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Ellie Lucas

In Review Online

Nov 15, 2020

A haunting, dreamlike, often absurd morality play, told with roguish mischievousness that only Mambéty could conjure.

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John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

Jun 22, 2020

4/4

This comic masterpiece about a wealthy woman who plunges an African village into chaos is definite in its targets (the persistence of colonialism as consumerism, especially) but universal in its consideration of human existence as both tragedy and farce.

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Shuai L

@RT02569283 Jun 25, 2025

If you're wise and serious, then I'm wise and serious with you!

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tom e

@RT59872142 Nov 26, 2021

The cinematography was the highlight of the movie. The message was so blatantly obvious the movie got tedious as I looked to find what I was missing. Thoroughly disappointed.

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Nov 9, 2013

corruption rears its ugly head

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Dec 18, 2011

Witty, colorful drama about a woman's plan to get revenge on the man and the town that mistreated her in her youth.

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Jan 9, 2011

Great little movie about the revenge of a woman returning to her village in Senegal and the people of the village who are corrupted by greed.

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Dec 2, 2009

A tale of revenge, greed and atonement. A fascinating, interesting film.

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Synopsis

After being kicked out of her African village three decades earlier for getting pregnant out of wedlock, Linguere (Ami Diakhate) has returned home. While Linguere has done well for herself, her home village has fallen on hard economic times. Intent on punishing Dramaan (Mansour Diouf), the man who fathered her child but refused to own up to the act, Linguere makes a proposal: She will help the town financially, if the locals agree to execute Dramaan.

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Producer: Pierre-Alain Meier, Alain Rozanès
Screenwriter: Djibril Diop Mambéty, Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Distributor: Kino International Corp.
Production Co: Thelma Film AG, ADR Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Wolof
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 18, 1992, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Apr 26, 2019
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA): $18.9K
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Mono

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