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A Handful of Rice 1940
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.
Director: Pál Fejős
Cast
Hugo Björne
Mr. Svensson
Gerda Björne
Mrs. Svensson
Sol-Britt Agerup
Majken
Gunnar Höglund
Svensson, boy
Jean Claesson
Pó Chai
The man
Leonard Bucknall Eyre
Narrator (U.S. version) (voice)
Mé Ying
The woman