Book adaptations

Making good books into films is an art in itself. We present our favourites that are particularly worth reading or watching. Enjoy!

Hyènes (1992)
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Senegal
111′
In Colobane, people expect the return of Linguère Ramatou, a former local girl now rumored to be richer than the World Bank. But her generosity has its conditions: she offers a check of ten billion for the death of Dramaan Drameh who refused to admit that he was the father of her child 30 years ago. "Life made made me a whore, now I'm turning the world into a brothel" she tells the citizens of Colobane.
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Adaptation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Swiss-German satirical tragicomedy play The Visit
The mirror - Zerkalo (1975)
Andrei Tarkowski
Russia
107′
Alyosha, a 40-year-old filmmaker, falls seriously ill. He remembers his past and collects the memories that marked his life: the house of his childhood, his mother waiting for the improbable return of her husband, the poems of his father, his wife and his son that he has not seen for a long time, the tumult of the Second World War.
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It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky.
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Akira Kurosawa
Japan
136′
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods. The film won the 1976 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the Golden Prize and the Prix FIPRESCI at the 9th Moscow International Film Festival and a number of other awards.
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The film is based on the 1923 memoir Dersu Uzala by Russian explorer Vladimir Arsenyev.
Reminiscent of the world-famous medieval book "The Necklace of the Dove - of Love and Lovers", the Tunisian filmmaker describes contrasting facets of love, for which the Arabic language knows has sixty terms.
Based on the book "Ciencias morales" by Martín Kohan (2007)