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One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Mambe?ty's long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Du?rrenmatt's play The Visit, which in Mambe?ty's imagining follows a now-rich woman returning 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. Per its title, Hyenas is a film of sinister, mocking laughter, and a biting satire of a contemporary Senegal whose post-colonial dreams are faced with erosion by western materialism. Restored in 2018 by Thelma Film AG with the support of Cine?mathe?que suisse, at Eclair Cinema, from the original negative.

Hyenas is a 1992 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 50 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.4.