Malaria

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