The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing
  • Release date: 10 Sep 1982
  • Release year: 1982
  • Runtime: 105 minutes
  • Country: Zambia, Sweden
  • Keywords: black man white woman sex, zimbabwe, death of protagonist, female protagonist, city woman, farmer, 1940s, southern rhodesia, clash of cultures, interracial affair
Plot:
In the 1960s, an American woman relocates from the big city to Southern Rhodesia with her future husband whose farm is failing, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life on the hardscrabble farm eventually takes its toll on her psyche and she finds herself involved sexually with one of their black servants. Based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass Is Singing.
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