Embrace of the Serpent
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
7.7125 min
DramaAdventure
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.
Movie Info
Release Date: 5/25/2015
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Ciro Guerra
Writers: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde
Top Cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Luigi Sciamanna
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