Embrace of the Serpent
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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."
TMDb Score
78
Not Yet Rated 2 hr 5 minSep 26th, 2015Adventure, Drama

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.

Director
Ciro Guerra
Starring
Nilbio Torresas Young Karamakate
Antonio Bolivaras Old Karamakate
Brionne Davisas Richard Evans Schultes