The grass is singing
By: Chibote Limited and the Swedish Film Institute ; written and directed by Michael Raeburn
Contributors: Thaw, John, 1942-; Kani, John; Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013; Chibote Limited; Svenska filminstitutet; Villon Films
Publisher: Villon Films
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Vancouver, Canada
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Drama; Race relation
Other titles: Killing heat
Description: The story of a desperately independent city-bred woman who gives up the comfort of her cosmopolitan life she's accustomed to for the sake of her man and eventual husband. Joining her husband in the African countryside where he is trying to make his way, but is unprepared to deal with the reality of country living. Gradually farm life begins to unnverve her, and in a grippling series of events she loses her self-control and becomes sexually involved with another man.
Notes: Based on the novel by Doris Lessing.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1981, released in the US in 1984 as: Killing heat.

Produced by Mark Forstater ; music by Björn Isfält and Lasse Dahlberg ; African music by Themba Tana ; director of photography, Bille August.

Karen Black, John Thaw, John Kani.

VHS.