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.
Directed by Ciro Guerra · Written by Jacques Toulemonde
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Nilbio Torres Karamakate (Young) -
Antonio Bolívar Karamakate (Old) -
Jan Bijvoet Theodor Koch-Grunberg -
Brionne Davis Richard Evans Schultes - Yauenkü Miguee Manduca
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Luigi Sciamanna The Missionary - Nicolás Cancino The Messiah
- Pediwake Daniel Martínez Santiago
- José Sabogal The Rubber Trapper
Make it a double feature
4h 10m together
Embrace of the Serpent
Birds of Passage
Both from Ciro Guerra.
