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Panic Mechanic

When Hanky Pranky (alias Schucks), star of a candid camera TV show, loses his job to affirmative action, he applies for a job at a stress academy. It´s not long before Schucks discovers his new boss, Jack Paddaman, is as crooked as they come, but it´s too late: the employment contract is signed and sealed.A year passes, and Schucks is no better off. However, his candid camera videos, which poke fun at all sectors of post-1994 South Africa, prove a big hit with stressed-out government ministers. When the president asks Paddaman to make a movie to benefit street children, Schucks and his pals do all the hard work while Paddaman plans how he can get hold of the profits from the video sales. Add a scatterbrained secretary, a lovelorn traffic cop and a cunning street child and you have a roll-in-the aisles comedy with a distinctly South African flavour.

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Panic Mechanic

November 29, 1996
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Cast (14)

Frantz Dobrowsky
Jack Paddaman
Nana Stapelberg
Gloria Haasbroek
Taryn Sudding
Annie / Various characters
John Robbie
Himself
Dorette Nel
Saartjie
Desmond Dube
SABC man
Ernest Ndhlovu
SABC boss
Tim Plewman
Minister of Transport

Crew (37)

Directing

David Lister
Director
Tamsin Hall
Continuity
Clive Stafford
First Assistant Director

Writing

Leon Schuster
Screenplay
Gus Silber
Screenplay
Andre Scholtz
Screenplay

Production

Leon Schuster
Co-Producer
Edgar Bold
Co-Producer
Thorsten Wedekind
Additional Casting
Andre Scholtz
Producer
Carol Kruger
Production Accountant
Angela Phillips
Production Coordinator
Carl Fischer
Executive Producer
Georgina Kriel
Production Manager

Sound

Charlotte Buys
Sound Effects Editor
Simon Rankin
Boom Operator
Juli Vandenberg
Supervising Sound Editor
Neill Solomon
Original Music Composer
Charles Evans
Foley Artist
Jonathan Kvalsvig
Boom Operator
Rüdiger Payrhuber
Sound Recordist
Sharron Hawkes
Sound Effects Editor
Juliet Philips
Foley Artist

Art

Billy Crauser
Location Scout
Christian Mc Cabe
Production Design

Camera

James Robb
Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Amanda Ross-McDonald
Assistant Makeup Artist
Anni Taylor
Key Makeup Artist

Crew

Olly Steele
Weapons Master
Olly Steele
Armorer

Editing

Charlotte Buys
First Assistant Editor
Tiny Laubscher
Additional Editor
Johan Lategan
Additional Editor
Uta Frey
Additional Editor
Tamsin Hall
Additional Editor

Lighting

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Visual Effects

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