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A Handful of Rice (1940)

5 | Jan 08, 1940 (SE) | Drama | 01:08

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.

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Hugo Björne
Mr. Svensson
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Gerda Björne
Mrs. Svensson
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Gunnar Höglund
Svensson, boy
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Pó Chai
The man
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Leonard Bucknall Eyre
Narrator (U.S. version) (voice)
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Mé Ying
The woman

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