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Malaria (1943 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Malaria' is a 1943 French drama film directed by Jean Gourguet and starring Mireille Balin, Sessue Hayakawa and Jacques Dumesnil.Kennedy-Karpat p.183
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 Sadi
* Jacques Dumesnil as Jean Barral
* Jean Debucourt as Le docteur Cyril
* Michel Vitold as Henri Malfas
* Alexandre Rignault as Le pre Dalmar
* Charles Lemontier as Gins
* Marcel Maupi as Zanzi
* Paul Demange as Moniz
* Michel Salina as Dago
* Franois Viguier as Kilouaki
References
Bibliography
* Kennedy-Karpat, Colleen. 'Rogues, Romance, and Exoticism in French Cinema of the 1930s'. Fairleigh Dickinson, 2013.
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