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The Grass Is Singing is a film of genre Drama directed by Michael Raeburn released in USA on 5 october 1984 with Karen Black
The Grass Is Singing (1981)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 october 1984
Length 1h45
Directed by Michael Raeburn
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating50%
Killing Heat (released in Sweden as Gräset sjunger) is a 1981 film based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel, The Grass Is Singing. It stars Karen Black and John Thaw and was filmed in Zambia.
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The film takes place in Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s. Mary, a city woman, marries a farmer named Dick Turner. Mary is pulled from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on Dick's unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly becomes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When Mary and Moses' affair is discovered Mary asks Moses to leave the farm. Moses returns and murders Mary. The film deals with the issues of colonialism, the white man's role in Africa, and the relationships between the races and genders.Actors
Karen Black
(Mary Turner)
John Thaw
(Dick Turner)
John Kani
(Moses)
Patrick Mynhardt
(Charlie Muller)
John Moulder-Brown
(Tony Marston)
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