The young shepherd Mory has taken the cattle to the slaughterhouse, rides through Dakar on his motorcycle adorned with horns, meets the student Anna and wants to set off with her to Paris, to the “little angel of paradise”. To be able to afford the crossing, they try their hand at petty crime. A crazy, rousing, bursting-at-the-seams plot about the African fascination with the promises of the Western world. This is also reflected in the whirling style of the self-taught Mambéty: Touki Bouki, Wolof for The Journey of the Hyena, combines film noir and nouvelle vague, comedy and social criticism and is an antithesis to the large-scale sell-out in the blaxploitation cinema that was thriving at the same time. In the bright colors of the 70s, Touki Bouki impetuously defies all narrative conventions. Anything goes!

Loan of the film print with kind support of the Cinémathèque Suisse.