Overview
A now-rich woman returns to her poor desert hometown to propose a deal to the populace: her fortune, in exchange for the death of the man who years earlier abandoned her and left her with his child.
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Based on
Based on The Visit
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Music
Music by Wasis Diop
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Djibril Diop MambétyWriter
- Original title
- Hyènes
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 18, 1992
- Original language
- Wolof
- Countries
- Senegal, Switzerland, France, United Kingdom
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Cast
Djibril Diop MambétyThe Judge
Mansour DioufDramaan
Ami DiakhateLinguere Ramatou
Makhouredia GueyeThe Mayor- Calgou FallThe Priest
- Faly GueyeMme. Drameh
Issa SambThe Professor- Omar BahChief of Protocol
- Kaoru EgushiToko
- Mbaba DiopLord of the Feather
Abdoulaye DiopThe Doctor
Rama ThiawThe Mayor's Wife- Oumi SambDancer
- Tcheley HannyHorse Woman
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