You Must Be Joking! (1986 film)

You Must Be Joking!
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Directed byElmo De Witt
Written byLeon Schuster
Fanus Rautenbach
Produced byElmo De Witt
Hermann Visser
StarringLeon Schuster
Mike Schutte
Kallie Knoetze
Golda Raff
Janine Pretorius
Martino
Narrated byDavid Blood
Tony Sanderson
Edited byGerrie Van Wyk
Music byJohan Van Rensburg
Leon Schuster
Distributed byElmo De Witt Films
Kavalier Films
Ster-Kinekor Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
96 minutes
CountrySouth Africa
LanguagesEnglish
Afrikaans

You Must Be Joking! is a 1986 South African candid camera comedy film, directed by Elmo De Witt who also produced it with Hermann Visser in collaboration with Johan Scholtz. It stars Leon Schuster in his first feature role, Mike Schutte, Kallie Knoetze, Golda Raff, Martino and Janine Pretorius. It became popular with South African audiences and gave rise to the sequel, You Must be Joking! Too.

Synopsis

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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

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