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''[[Blink Stefans]]'' is a South African [[Afrikaans]] film that was released in 1981.
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''[[Blink Stefans]]'' is a South African [[Afrikaans]] film that was released in 1981 and written and directed by [[Jans Rautenbach]].
 
   
 
   
 
==The film==
 
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==Production team==
 
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Directed by [[Ivan Hall]] and produced by [[Albie Venter]] and [[Madel Venter]], with a script  by [[James Ambrose Brown]] and [[Otto Krause]], music by [[Art Heatlie]], cinematography by [[Ivo Pellegrini]] and film editing by [[David de Beyer]].
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Production Management was by [[André Venter]] and [[Bill Venter]] and the rest of the crew consisted of
 
[[Bob Riley]] (assistant director), [[Mary Usmar]] and [[Peter Usmar]] (sound and continuity), [[Hugh Fowler]] (assistant camera), [[Ronnie Wilson]] (still photographer), [[Boet Pretorius]] (music recordings), and [[Brian le Roux]] (titles).
 
  
 
==The cast==
 
==The cast==

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Blink Stefans is a South African Afrikaans film that was released in 1981 and written and directed by Jans Rautenbach.

The film

Fanus (a shortened form of ‘Stefaans’) is a nondescript sound engineer who is never noticed by anyone, especially not by his boss's beautiful but temperamental daughter, Linda. But that all changes with the arrival of Blink Stefaans (‘Shiny Steven’), who has a lot of advice for Fanus – from how he can make money, to how he ought to dress. Fanus follows the advice of Blink Stefaans, and suddenly he gets a lucrative job as a filmmaker and makes friends with the filmmaker's assistant, Chrissie. But then he decides to ignore Blink Stefaans’s advice. He begs Linda, with whom he’s still in love, to be the star of his new Cinderella-style advertisement. But the ad campaign fails, Fanus loses his job, and Chrissie flees to the Cape with a broken heart. Blink Stefaans also abandons Fanus. Will Fanus ever get his happy life back, or do such things only happen in fairy tales?

Production team

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The cast

The cast includes Regardt van den Bergh (playing both "Fanus Taljaard", the main character and "Blink Stefaans", his alter ego), Zoli Marki ("Chrissie Hofmeyer"), Jana Cilliers ("Linda Rossouw"), George Ballot ("Louis van Schalkwyk"), Zack du Plessis ("JP de Villiers"), Dana Niehaus ("Konsertina Rossouw"), At Botha ("Herman Engelbrecht"), Trix Pienaar ("ballet mistress"), Janice Honeyman ("advertising agent"), Willie Esterhuizen ("dog trainer"), Paul Malherbe ("magistrate"), Mijanou Louwens ("June (Poplap)"), Flip Theron ("Jakes"), [[Fran Faulkner] ("Bokkie"), Isobel Pienaar ("Doctor"), Terry Leon ("Ben"), Tertius Meintjes ("Barry"), Nobby Clark ("singing dog voice artist"), Tracey Ostoloh ("dancer"), Mandy Rothenburg ("Romanoff model"), Hildegard Vogt ("Romanoff"), Aletta Du Toit ("metre maid"), Japie van Niekerk ("Oom Pieter Davel'), Jonathan Bodenstein ("Dick"), Royston Stoffels ("magistrate's court receptionist") and Annelize van der Ryst ("jewellery store assistant").

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