A Handful of Rice

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.

Directed by Pál Fejős, Gunnar Skoglund

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

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