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A Handful of Rice

Pál Fejős, Gunnar Skoglund

1940

  • Drama
6.0

The prologue shows a Swedish home, where a family discusses what "a handful of rice" can mean. The action then moves to Thailand and shows the life of a Thai couple, Pó Chai and Mé Ying, and their lives of joy and hardship in the jungle growing rice.

Cast & crew

  • Pál FejősDirector
  • Gunnar SkoglundDirector
  • Hugo BjörneMr. Svensson
  • Gerda BjörneMrs. Svensson
  • Sol-Britt AgerupMajken
  • Gunnar HöglundSvensson, boy
  • Jean Claesson
  • Pó ChaiThe man
  • Leonard Bucknall EyreNarrator (U.S. version) (voice)
  • Mé YingThe woman

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