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You Must Be Joking!
DVD Cover
Directed by Elmo De Witt
Written by Leon Schuster
Fanus Rautenbach
Produced byElmo De Witt
Hermann Visser
StarringLeon Schuster
Mike Schutte
Kallie Knoetze
Golda Raff
Janine Pretorius
Martino
Narrated by David Blood
Tony Sanderson
Edited by Gerrie Van Wyk
Music by Johan Van Rensburg
Leon Schuster
Distributed by Elmo De Witt Films
Kavalier Films
Ster-Kinekor Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 1986 (1986)
Running time
96 minutes
CountrySouth Africa
Languages English
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

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.

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