Embrace of the Serpent
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
20152h 5m
- Drama
- Adventure
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB534 votes
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.
- Directed by
- Ciro Guerra
- Written by
- Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra
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Cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
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Facts
- Status
- Released
- Original title
- El abrazo de la serpiente
- Original language
- Spanish
- Budget
- $1.4M
- Revenue
- $1.3M
- Production companies
- Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones, Dago García Producciones
