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"The Grass is Singing" (1950) was the first novel of author Doris Lessing.

The Australian home video sleeve states that the picture was "filmed on location in Africa". The movie's closing credits declare that "the film was shot on location in Livingstone, Lusaka and in the Kafue National Park, Zambia".

A joint Swedish/Zambia production with Swedish technicians and British and American cast.

This theatrical feature film was made and released about thirty-one years after its source novel of the same name by Doris Lessing was first published in 1950.

Debut cinema movie written or directed by writer-director Michael Raeburn.

One of two filmed adaptations of stories by Doris Lessing first released in the year of 1981. The other picture was Memoirs of a Survivor (1981).

The film screened out-of-competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981.

Second time that the source novel "The Grass is Singing" (1950) by Doris Lessing has been filmed as it had been previously produced as an episode of Studio 4 (1962) about nineteen years earlier [See: Studio 4: The Grass Is Singing (1962)] it being first broadcast on 26th March 1962.

The film and source book's "The Grass is Singing" title is derived from lines 354 and 386 of Part V: 'What the Thunder Said' of the poem "The Waste Land" (1922) by T.S. Eliot.

Final cinema movie as a director of photography for Danish writer-director Bille August.

English actor John Thaw's next cinema movie that he appeared in after Gräset sjunger (1981) would be another Africa set movie that being director Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom (1987).

Two of the film's top-billed lead cast were first-named "John" - John Thaw and John Kani.