A doctor embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman with whom he is having an affair. After losing all the money while gambling, he is forced to flee to an undeveloped region of India. There, he tries to mitigate the onslaught of a disease the natives term "Amok," while his past mistakes still plague him.
Acting
María Félix consumes every frame like oxygen.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched Paris to sweaty, claustrophobic Indian exteriors.
Director
Antonio Momplet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
María Félix was Mexico's biggest star, and this rare French-Mexican co-production weaponized her ice-queen persona for international audiences.
The film borrows its title from a real psychiatric syndrome—'running amok'—turning colonial observer language into the protagonist's literal and metaphorical condition.
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