The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)

 

The Gods Must Be Crazy

1980 ‧ Comedy/Adventure ‧ 1h 49m

MOVIE INFO

The tribal people in a remote African desert live a happy life, but it is all torn to pieces when a Coca-Cola bottle falls from a plane. With the villagers fighting over the strange foreign object, tribal leader Xi (N!xau) decides to take the bottle back to the gods to restore peace. His journey to the "end of the world" eventually has him crossing paths with a bumbling scientist (Marius Weyers) and a band of guerrillas who take a schoolteacher (Sandra Prinsloo) and her class hostage.

• Rating: PG

• Genre: Comedy

• Original Language: Afrikaans

• Director: Jamie Uys

• Producer: Jamie Uys

• Writer: Jamie Uys

• Release Date (Theaters): Aug 28, 1981  Wide

• Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2015

• Box Office (Gross USA): $30.0M

• Runtime: 1h 48m

• Distributor: Jensen Farley Pictures, 20th Century Fox

• Production Co: CAT Films

CAST & CREW

Marius Weyers

Andrew Steyn

Sandra Prinsloo

Kate Thompson

N!xau

Xi

Louw Verwey

Sam Boga

Michael Thys

Mpudi

Jamie Uys

The Reverend

Nic de Jager

Jack Hind

Ken Gampu

President

Jamie Uys

Director

Jamie Uys

Screenwriter

Jamie Uys

Producer

John Boshoff

Original Music

Robert Lewis

Cinematographer

Buster Reynolds

Cinematographer

Jamie Uys

Film Editing

Caroline Burls

Art Director

Gail Grobbelaar

Costume Design

Mij Reynolds

Costume Design