Malaria | |
Director: | Jean Gourguet |
Music: | Arthur Hoérée |
Cinematography: | Georges Million |
Editing: | Émilienne Bigand |
Studio: | Union Française de Production Cinématographique |
Distributor: | Societe d'Edition et de Location de Films |
Runtime: | 90 minutes |
Country: | France |
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.
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.