Schuks! Your Country Needs You

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Schuks! Your Country Needs You
Directed byGray Hofmeyer
Written byLeon Schuster
StarringLeon Schuster, Alfred Ntombela, Rob van Vuuren
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date
  • November 29, 2013 (2013-11-29)
Running time
94 minutes

Schuks! Your Country Needs You is a 2013 South African comedy prank movie directed by Gray Hofmeyr and written by Leon Schuster. The movie is the eighth entry in the popular South African candid camera series where Leon Schuster as the titular Schuks, Rob van Vuuren, Lare Birk, and Alfred Ntombela prank unsuspecting everyday South Africans. [1] [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Schuks! Your Country Needs You on iTunes". itunes.apple.com. 29 November 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. "Rob van Vuuren apologises for using blackface in Leon Schuster film".
  3. "UPDATE: Producer André Scholtz on decision to remove Schuster films: 'I was shocked, but not entirely surprised'".