Malaria is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Gourguet and starring Mireille Balin, Sessue Hayakawa and Jacques Dumesnil.[1]

Malaria
Directed byJean Gourguet
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyGeorges Million
Edited byÉmilienne Bigand
Music byArthur Hoérée
Production
company
Union Française de Production Cinématographique
Distributed bySociete d'Edition et de Location de Films
Release date
  • 30 June 1943 (1943-06-30)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Dumesnil.

Synopsis

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Kennedy-Karpat p.183

Bibliography

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