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The Gods Must Be Crazy ()

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A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
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Andrew Steyn
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Kate Thompson
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Louw Verwey ...
Sam Boga
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Mpudi
Nic de Jager ...
Jack Hind
Fanyana H. Sidumo ...
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Joe Seakatsie ...
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Mr. Thompson
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President
Paddy O'Byrne ...
Narrator (voice)
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The Reverend (uncredited) (voice)
Vera Blacker ...
Mrs. Thompson (uncredited)
Pip Freedman ...
Mpudi (uncredited) (voice)
Katinka Heyns ...
Young woman with noise in her head (uncredited)
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The Reverend (uncredited)
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Kate Thompson (uncredited) (voice)

Directed by

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Jamie Uys

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Jamie Uys ... (written by)

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Boet Troskie ... executive producer
Jamie Uys ... producer

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Johnny Boshoff ... (as John Boshoff)

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Robert Lewis
Buster Reynolds
Jamie Uys

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Jamie Uys

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Stanford C. Allen ... consulting editor
Sue Antelme ... assistant editor
Gerda van den Broek ... assistant editor
Ricardo Olivero ... color timer (uncredited)

Art Direction by

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Caroline Burls ... (uncredited)

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Gail Grobbelaar
Mij Reynolds

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William Bell ... makeup artist (as Bill Bell)
Olga Lombard ... makeup artist

Production Management

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Rina Venter ... production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Kobus Kruger ... assistant director (as Kobus Krüger)

Art Department

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Caroline Burls ... artwork / graphics
Piet Esterhuizen ... set constructor
Wilhelm Esterhuizen ... set constructor

Sound Department

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Tiny Burman ... synchronizer
Chris Fellows ... final mixer
Avram D. Gold ... supervising adr editor (US release)
Nelson Mabasha ... sound operator
Roelf van Jaarsveld ... sound editor
Chris Fellows ... sound re-recordist (uncredited)
Joseph Holsen ... sound editor (uncredited)
Martha Burns Holsen ... sound editor (uncredited)
Ted Peach ... sound engineer (uncredited)
John Roesch ... foley artist (uncredited)
John Rotondi ... sound engineer (uncredited)

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Paul Ballinger ... special effects

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Anthony Bannister ... still photographer (uncredited)
Nelson Mabasha ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Les Reynolds ... assistant camera (uncredited)
Wolfgang Wiesner ... assistant camera (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Caroline Burls ... continuity
Di Yates ... continuity

Additional Crew

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Vivian Bristow ... animal trainer (as Viv Bristow)
Daan Retief ... dialogue coach
Jack Seale ... animal trainer
Gerda van den Broek ... assistant to producer
Sheryl Friederichsen ... foreign marketing producer (uncredited)

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Plot Summary

A Bushman in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the Gods--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced to a clumsy biologist, a schoolteacher assigned to a small village, and a despotic revolutionary. Written by Colin Tinto

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Taglines The critics are raving... the natives are restless... and the laughter is non-stop! See more »
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Also Known As
  • Miracle World: Bushman (Japan, English title)
  • Les dieux sont tombés sur la tête (France)
  • Los dioses deben estar locos (Spain)
  • Και οι θεοί τρελάθηκαν (Greece)
  • Los dioses deben estar locos (Argentina)
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  • 109 min
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Box Office

Budget $5,000,000 (estimated)
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $60,000,000

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Trivia The film ran for 532 consecutive days at the Oaks Theaters in Cupertino, California, setting a record for the longest uninterrupted run of any movie in Northern California. It was pulled only because the film reels fell into disrepair and a large section caught fire. After such a long run, replacing the reels was too expensive. See more »
Goofs After the assassination attempt in the village, the lead vehicle accidentally runs over a live chicken, not a prop or fake; when viewed frame-by-frame, it clearly tries leap out of the way. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in N!Ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman (1981). See more »
Soundtracks The Week's Work See more »
Quotes Narrator: Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city. And here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if it's Monday and 7:30 comes up, you have to dis-adapt from your domestic surroundings and re-adapt yourself to an entirely different environment. 8:00 means everybody has to look busy... 10:30 says you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes. And then you have to look busy again... And so your day is chopped into pieces, and in each segment of time you adapt to a new set circumstances.
Narrator: [Kate looks for a place to have her lunch] My I share a table?
Kate Thompson: No wonder some people go off the rails a bit...
Young woman with noise in her head: Does the noise in my head bother you?
Young woman with noise in her head: No...
Kate Thompson: [Later, Kate finds Pete] Pete, Have you still got that story about the teacher shortage in Botswana?
Pete: Yeah, you gonna use it?
Kate Thompson: No. Maybe they can use me.
Narrator: But in the Kalahari, it's always Tuesday, or Thursday if you like, or Sunday. No clocks or calendars tell you to do this or that.
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