Killing Heat background

Killing Heat

In the 1940s, a city girl moves from America to her husband's failing farm in Southern Rhodesia in colonial Africa. Unhappy and unhinged, she starts an affair with their black servant which leads to tragedy.

In the 1960s, an American woman relocates from the big city to Southern Rhodesia with her future husband whose farm is failing, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life on the hardscrabble farm eventually takes its toll on her psyche and she finds herself involved sexually with one of their black servants. Based on Doris Lessing's 1950 novel The Grass Is Singing.

Info about Killing Heat

Studio(s): Chibote Limited, Mark Forstater Productions

Originally Released: Australia, Sep 02, 1982

Production Countries: Sweden, United Kingdom, Zambia

Genres:Drama