A Black teacher's rage becomes a revolution — apartheid's nightmare in one man's breakdown.
Acting
Robert Liensol's controlled implosion — dignity cracking into something dangerous.
Direction
Ben-Barka's unflinching eye refuses the comfort of easy heroes.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness before letting it shatter.
Director
Souheil Ben-Barka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Banned in South Africa upon release; smuggled prints circulated in activist circles. Makeba's participation carried personal exile weight.
The title references the Malay 'amok' concept — colonial psychiatry's racist diagnosis of 'uncontrollable' indigenous rage, reclaimed here as justified explosion.
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