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Movie poster: Hyenas (1992)
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1992 · 110 min Drama Comedy
7.1 / 10 · TMDB

Linguère returns to her impoverished hometown of Colobane after decades of absence. She is no longer the destitute young woman who was once exiled; she is now the wealthiest person on the planet. Her arrival is a calculated move. She offers the townspeople unimaginable riches, enough to solve all their debts and dreams, in exchange for a single, terrible act: the life of Draman, the shopkeeper who wronged her, betrayed her love, and orchestrated her downfall. The community, seduced by the glitter of her wealth, begins a grotesque moral unraveling.

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Original Title Hyènes
Year 1992
Country Senegal, Switzerland, France
Genre Drama, Comedy
Director Djibril Diop Mambéty
Runtime 110 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.1/10 (35 votes)

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Mambety crafts a savage allegory where comedy stems from the absurd theater of human venality. His direction is both poetic and surgical, dissecting the ease with which community bonds are commodified.

What lingers after the final frame is the chilling universality of its fable—a timeless reflection on how easily dignity is pawned. A masterwork of African cinema that speaks a global language of moral decay. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty

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The surreal spectacle of greed under a relentless sun. A moral drought in a physically parched landscape.

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