DVD & Blu-ray: HYENAS (1992) - New 2K Restoration.

Product Description: One of the treasures of African cinema, Senegalese master Djibril Diop Mambéty’s long-delayed follow-up to his canonical Touki Bouki (1973) is a hallucinatory comic adaptation of Swiss avant-garde writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play The Visit, which in Mambéty’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. New 2K Restoration. Restored in 2018 by Thelma Film AG with the support of Cinémathèque suisse, at Eclair Cinema, from the original negative.

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Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty

Starring: Mansour Diouf, Faly Gueye, Omar Ba Ami Diakhate

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 110 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Wolof, French, Japanese

Studio: Metrograph Pictures

Home Video Release Date: May 26, 2020

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

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Audio commentary by film scholar Boukary Sawadogo, Ph.D.
Booklet with introduction by culture writer Rooney Elmi and interview with director Djibril Diop Mambéty
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