Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

05/25/2015 (AR) • 2h 5m

Drama, Adventure

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.

Top Billed Cast

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper


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Status

Released

Original Language

Catalan

Budget

$1,400,000.00

Revenue

$1,320,005.00

Keywords

indigenous

religious conversion

amazon rainforest

based on true story

spirituality

colonisation

religious fundamentalism

nature

colonialism

amazon tribe

indigenous peoples

chamanismo

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