Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Starring Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis
Directed by Ciro Guerra
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.
Runtime: 125 min.
Rating: 7.8
DVD
Languages: Catalan,Deutsch,Latin,Portuguese,Spanish
Countries: Argentina,Colombia,Venezuela
Genres: Adventure,Drama
Keywords: amazon,religious conversion,spirituality,colonisation,nature,colonialism,religious fanaticism,amazon rainforest,amazon tribe,indigenous peoples,amazon jungle,cultural heritage
Cast
Young Karamakate
Old Karamakate
Richard Evans Schultes
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Priest Gaspar
Anizetto (Messiah)
Manduca