

Touki Bouki
The Journey of the Hyena.
Mory, a cowherd, and Anta, a university student, try to make money in order to go to Paris and leave their boring past behind.
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6.6/10
127 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
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- Language
- Arabic
- ship
- emigration
- senegal
- road trip
- motorcycle
- avant-garde
- cattle
- young lovers
- animal slaughter
- gay theme
- dakar
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
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Release dates
FranceFR
- PremiereDirectors' Fortnight at Cannes (Exact date unknown)10 May 1973
RussiaSU
- PremiereMoscow Film Festival1 Jul 1973
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Touki Bouki was released on 10 May 1973.
Audience reviews
2- B8/10
badelf
5/30/2024
I don't what to say about this movie. One thing is very certain. The Avant-Garde movement of the 1960s and 1970s is blatantly clear in the styling of this film. That alone makes this one work a significant, historical mile-post in cultural cinema. Typically avant-garde, the film's sarcasm pointed at the bourgeois (capitalist) class is not only quite biting, but also quite humorous. It uses the juxtaposition of …
- G8/10
griggs79
3/24/2025
_Touki Bouki_ is a strange, stylish trip through ’70s Dakar, following two young lovers desperate to get to Paris. It’s got that scrappy, rebellious energy—lots of quick cuts, pop music, and surreal moments that give it a real French New Wave feel. But it’s not just fun and games. The slaughterhouse imagery is appropriately grim and sticks with you, casting a dark shadow over the whole thing. Mambéty’s saying somethi…
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