Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

05/25/2015Drama, Adventure2h 5m
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A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Nilbio Torres

    Karamakate (Young)

  2. Cast 1

    Antonio Bolívar

    Karamakate (Old)

  3. Cast 1

    Jan Bijvoet

    Theodor Koch-Grunberg

  4. Cast 1

    Brionne Davis

    Richard Evans Schultes

  5. Yauenkü Miguee

    Manduca

  6. Cast 1

    Luigi Sciamanna

    The Missionary

  7. Nicolás Cancino

    The Messiah

  8. Pediwake Daniel Martínez

    Santiago

  9. José Sabogal

    The Rubber Trapper

> In any world, the history keeps repeating itself. It is one of the last films to I watch from the 2016 Oscars nominees. It was a Colombian production that represented the country in the 88th American Academy Awards. It had all the qualities to win that major international award, but lost the bet to 'Son of Saul'. In my perspective, after seeing all the five, no doubt, but this film's the real winner. The film was loosely based on the real occurrence that was written in the diaries of two scientists on their expedition into the Amazon's deep in search of something what intrigued the confli...