Embrace of the Serpent

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.

Genre : DramaAdventure

Runtime : 125 mins

Release Date : 2015-05-25

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Good and complete movie touching several topics at the same time; the destruction through the conquest of the native cultures and knowlege in America and the vital path of 4 different human beings. Ciro Guerra es smart to use black and white and the landscapes of the Amazonas to fill all the sil...

> In any world, the history keeps repeating itself. It is one of the last films to I watch from the 2016 Oscars nominees. It was a Colombian production that represented the country in the 88th American Academy Awards. It had all the qualities to win that major international award, but lost the b...

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)