The Grass Is Singing

A marriage, a murder, a country without mercy

The Grass Is Singing — Plot

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.

• Release date
• August 30, 1981
• Runtime
• 105 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Michael Raeburn

The Grass Is Singing — Cast

Karen Black Mary Turner John Thaw Dick Turner John Kani Moses Patrick Mynhardt Charlie Muller John Moulder-Brown Tony Marston

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Margaret Heale Ellen Muller Björn Gedda Sgt. Denham Jan Nygren Doctor