Amok (1944 film)
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Director Antonio Momplet Duration Language Spanish | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Country Mexico | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 22 December 1944 (1944-12-22) Writer Max Aub, Antonio Momplet, Erwin Wallfisch, Stefan Zweig (novel) Music director Agustin Lara, Manuel Esperon Cast Julián Soler , María Félix , Estela Inda , Miguel Ángel Ferriz , José Baviera Similar movies Maria Felix appears in Amok and Dizziness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amok is a 1944 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Antonio Momplet and starring María Félix and Julián Soler. The film is based on the novel Der Amokläufer by author Stefan Zweig.
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A doctor (Julián Soler) embezzles the proceeds of his Parisian clinic in order to better support the manipulative woman (María Félix) 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.
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Amok (1944 film) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Amok (1944 film) IMDb Amok (1944 film) themoviedb.org