The Grass Is Singing
A marriage, a murder, a country without mercy
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.
- Year: 1981
- Country: Sweden, United Kingdom, Zambia
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: Chibote Limited, Mark Forstater Productions, Svenska Filminstitutet
- Keyword: marriage crisis, africa, rural area, colonialism, rhodesia
- Director: Michael Raeburn
- Cast: Karen Black, John Thaw, John Kani, Patrick Mynhardt, John Moulder-Brown, Margaret Heale