Embrace of the Serpent
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
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.
- Year : 2015
- Country : Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela
- Genre : Drama, Adventure
- Studio : Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones, Dago García Producciones
- Keyword : indigenous, religious conversion, amazon rainforest, based on true story, spirituality, colonisation, religious fundamentalism, nature, colonialism, amazon tribe, indigenous peoples
- Director : Ciro Guerra
- Cast : Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Luigi Sciamanna