Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
10/06/2016 (GB)
Drama, Adventure
2h 5m
- 77% (488 votes)
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A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Overview
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
- Ciro GuerraDirector, Writer
- Jacques ToulemondeWriter
Original Title
El abrazo de la serpiente
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Budget
$1,400,000
Revenue
$1,320,005
Keywords
- indigenous
- religious conversion
- amazon rainforest
- based on true story
- spirituality
- colonisation
- religious fundamentalism
- nature
- colonialism
- amazon tribe
- indigenous peoples
- chamanismo
Top Billed Cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
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