The Grass Is Singing

IMDb link: 0084033
IMDb rating: 5.1 (212 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Michael Raeburn
Cast: Karen Black, John Kani, John Thaw, Patrick Mynhardt and others

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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