Embrace of the Serpent
2015
Movie Information
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.
Release Date
May 25, 2015
Director
Ciro Guerra
Runtime
2h 5m
Cast
Nilbio TorresAntonio BolívarJan BijvoetBrionne DavisYauenkü MigueeLuigi SciamannaNicolás CancinoPediwake Daniel MartínezJosé Sabogal
Production
Nortesur ProduccionesBuffalo FilmsCaracol TelevisiónCiudad LunarMC ProduccionesDago García Producciones
Genres
DramaAdventure