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The Gods Must Be Crazy(Movie, 1980)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 49min | Genres: Action, Comedy
The Gods Must Be CrazyRating: 3.6/5 (with 491491 votes)
The Gods Must Be Crazy is a 1980 comedy film written, produced, edited and directed by Jamie Uys. An international co-production of South Africa and Botswana, it is the first film in The Gods Must Be Crazy series. Set in Southern Africa, the film stars Namibian San farmer Nǃxau ǂToma as Xi, a hunter-gatherer of the Kalahari Desert whose tribe discovers a glass Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an aeroplane, and believe it to be a gift from their gods. When Xi sets out to return the bottle to the gods, his journey becomes intertwined with that of a biologist (Marius Weyers), a newly hired village school teacher (Sandra Prinsloo), and a band of guerrilla terrorists. The Gods Must Be Crazy was released in South Africa on 10 September 1980 by Ster-Kinekor, and broke several box office records in the country, becoming the most financially successful South African film ever produced at the time. The film was a commercial and critical s... ()
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About The Gods Must Be Crazy

A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

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Additional Information

Production countries: Botswana, South Africa
Shot in: South Africa
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Afrikaans (AF), English (EN), Tswana (TN)
Translated into 29 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 07/09/1982 (World premiere: 09/10/1980)
Narrator: Paddy O'Byrne
Director: Jamie Uys
Producer: Jamie Uys
Screenwriter: Jamie Uys
Film Editor: Jamie Uys
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Боговете сигурно са полудели"
"众神也疯狂 (上)"
"Los dioses deben estar locos"
"Les Dieux sont tombés sur la tête"
"כולם נפלו על הראש"
"부시맨"
"Os Deuses Devem Estar Loucos"
"Боги, наверное, сошли с ума"
"Los dioses Deben Estar Locos"
"เทวดาท่าจะบ๊องส์"
Budget: 5,000,000 USD
Revenue: 60,000,000 USD (= 1,200%)

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