Even The Grass Grows Red Here "This film was made in 104 days of shooting over the entire continent of Africa. It is a history of how the blacks came to be dominated by the whites in the various countries of Africa. It is a history of slaughter and killings, going back 300 years, of how the whites brutally usurped the land of the blacks." Soviet propaganda film. Africa The aftermath of an atrocity, the site where a school teacher and entire class were shot at point black; papers and books are strewn about the remote area, the bodies piled high in a pit (flies in droves cover the bodies like a blanket). Apartheid