Malaria (1943 film)

Malaria is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Gourguet and starring Mireille Balin, Sessue Hayakawa and Jacques Dumesnil.

Malaria
Directed by	Jean Gourguet
Written by	Paul Achard Jean Gourguet Émile Roussel Georges Vally
Produced by	Jean Gourguet Paul Tissier
Starring	Mireille Balin Sessue Hayakawa Jacques Dumesnil
Cinematography	Georges Million
Edited by	Émilienne Bigand
Music by	Arthur Hoérée
Production company	Union Française de Production Cinématographique
Distributed by	Societe d'Edition et de Location de Films
Release date	30 June 1943 (1943-06-30)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

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

Bibliography

• Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.

External links

• Malaria at IMDb