Malaria is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Gourguet and starring Mireille Balin, Sessue Hayakawa and Jacques Dumesnil.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Dumesnil.
Synopsis
In the French colonial empire a love triangle develops between two men and a woman. She begins having an affair with a man who promises to take her back to Europe and away from the tropical colony which she finds like a prison. However a native servant overhears them and then mysteriously disappears, leading to suspicions of murders.
Cast
- Mireille Balin as Madeleine Barral
- Sessue Hayakawa as Saïdi
- Jacques Dumesnil as Jean Barral
- Jean Debucourt as Le docteur Cyril
- Michel Vitold as Henri Malfas
- Alexandre Rignault as Le père Dalmar
- Charles Lemontier as Ginès
- Marcel Maupi as Zanzi
- Paul Demange as Moniz
- Michel Salina as Dago
- François Viguier as Kilouaki
References
- ^ Kennedy-Karpat p.183
Bibliography
- Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
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