Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Original Title: El abrazo de la serpiente
Adventure
Drama
7.7 (470 votes)
2h 5m
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.
Details
- Director
- Ciro Guerra
- Writer
- Ciro Guerra
- Original Language
- Spanish
- Budget
- $1,400,000
Cast
Antonio Bolívar
Brionne Davis
Jan Bijvoet
José Sabogal
Luigi Sciamanna
Nicolás Cancino
Nilbio Torres
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Yauenkü Miguee
Keywords
amazon rainforest
amazon tribe
based on true story
chamanismo
colonialism
colonisation
indigenous
indigenous peoples
nature
religious conversion
religious fundamentalism
spirituality
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