Embrace of the Serpent
"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."
May 25, 20152h 5m★ 7.7Released
Genres
DramaAdventure
Overview
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.
Starring
Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Luigi Sciamanna
Directed by
Ciro Guerra
Produced by
Cristina Gallego
Language
ES
Country
Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela
Budget
$1,400,000
Revenue
$1,320,005