Killing Heat

Killing Heat

English-language release
Directed by Michael Raeburn
Produced by Mark Forstater
Catharina Stackelberg
Written by Doris Lessing
Michael Raeburn
Based on The Grass is Singing
by Doris Lessing
Starring Karen Black
John Thaw
John Kani
Patrick Mynhardt
John Moulder Brown
Margaret Heale
Music by Lasse Dahlberg
Björn Isfält
Cinematography Bille August
Edited by Thomas Schwalm
Distributed by Chibote
Swedish Film Institute
Release dates
2 September 1982 (Australia)
Running time
105 minutes
Country Sweden
Australia
Zambia
Language English

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.

Plot

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.[1]

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