Hyenas

This masterful comedic parable about greed from Senegal’s Djibril Diop Mambety tells of a kindly grocer living in the impoverished commune of Colobane whose life is disrupted when a wealthy woman returns to the village, claiming he seduced and abandoned her years earlier. In order to get revenge, the woman offers the villagers millions if they kill the shopkeeper. Effective transposition of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s "The Visit" stars Ami Diakhate, Mansour Diouf. 113 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Wolof and French; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; theatrical trailers. In Wolof and French with English subtitles.