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You Must Be Joking! (1986 Film)
''You Must Be Joking!'' is a 1986 South African film. It is Leon Schuster's first hidden camera film. Plot In a series of short skits, Leon Schuster uses candid camera and several disguises to stitch up the general public of South Africa. Such sketches include: *The watermelon pulse test, where Leon shows that a watermelon is only ripe when it does not have a heartbeat, much to the confusion of the seller. *Cooking on the bonnet of a car, while upsetting the traffic police. *Supposedly killing a cow in a butcher's shop. Cast *Leon Schuster * Mike Schutte *Kallie Knoetze Kallie Knoetze (born as Nikolaas Jacobus Knoetze on 24 April 1953) is a retired South African heavyweight boxer and actor. Boxing career As an amateur Knoetze fought future professional world champion fellow South African Gerrie Coetzee six t ... * Golda Raff * Janine Pretorius *Martino External links * 1986 comedy films 1986 films South African comedy films Afrikaans-language films English-langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmo De Witt
Elmo De Witt (d 2011) was a South African filmmaker, who worked as a director and a producer. His films include ''Debbie Debbie (or Debby or Deb) is a feminine given name, commonly but not always short for Deborah (or Debra and related variants). Notable people * Debbie Allen, American actress, choreographer and film director * Debbie Armstrong, American athlete * ...'' (1965), '' The Last Lion'' (1972), '' Ter Wille van Christene'' (1975), '' Grensbasis 13'' (1979) and '' You Must Be Joking!'' (1986). He was a prolific filmmaker, whose activity spanned more than three decades, from 1959 to 1992.Armes R. ''Dictionary of African Filmmakers'', pp. 56–57 (Indiana University Press; 2008) Keyan Tomaselli considers him typical of Afrikaans directors who "have made films which conflict with the stereotypical "farm" image of the Afrikaner".Tomaselli K. ''The Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Film'', p. 112 (Routledge; 2013) Select filmography * '' Satanskoraal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |