Sweet 'n Short

Sweet 'n Short

Oh Shucks... It's the New South Africa

1991•1h 29m•4.7/10

Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb

4.7/10(5)

A disgraced sports presenter falls victim to an accidental head trauma and slips into a coma. He awakens months later to find that South Africa was not as he left it, he is now in the New South Africa, and his multimillion-Rand idea has been stolen from beneath him.

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Production

Koukus Troika, Toron Screen Corporation

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Leon Schuster

Leon Schuster

Sweet Coetzee

Casper De Vries

Casper De Vries

George Weedle

Joanna Weinberg

Joanna Weinberg

Sandy

Alfred Ntombela

Alfred Ntombela

Alfred Short

Gerrit Schoonhoven

Gerrit Schoonhoven

Savage

Ivan D. Lucas

Ivan D. Lucas

Bossie

Gordon Edwards

Doc

Rufus Swart

Rufus Swart

Longdrop Botha

Sean Higgs

Sean Higgs

Cowboys Scrumhalf

James Borthwick

James Borthwick

Shawn Raymond

Jamie Bartlett

Jamie Bartlett

Spookie Simpson

Hannes Muller

Hannes Muller

Cowboy lock

Chris Olley

Chris Olley

Makulu lock

Derik Giessing

Makulu scrumhalf

Natalie Gamsu

Natalie Gamsu

Angel Weedle

Henriëtta Gryffenberg

Henriëtta Gryffenberg

Orphan in a storm

Kallie Knoetze

Big Boer

Jurgen Hellberg

Jurgen Hellberg

Orange farmer

Marius Du Plooy Jnr

Marius Du Plooy Jnr

Farmer's son

Michal Grobbelaar

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