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Embrace of the Serpent (2016)

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Movie"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."
Audience Score
77
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NR 2 hr 5 minFeb 17th, 2016Adventure, Drama
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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.
StarringNilbio TorresAntonio BolívarJan Bijvoet
DirectorCiro Guerra
WritersJacques ToulemondeCiro Guerra

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:February 17th, 2016
Movie Budget:$1,400,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$1,320,005 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Spanish
Executive Producers:Marcelo Céspedes, Raúl Bravo, Hori Mentasti
Production Companies:Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones, Dago García Producciones
Embrace of the Serpent on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
based on true storynatureindigenouscolonialismspiritualityamazon rainforestindigenous peoplesreligious fundamentalismcolonisationreligious conversion