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Embrace of the Serpent
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.
2015 · Directed by Ciro Guerra · 125 min · Drama · Adventure · 11 frames
Tagline
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Crew
- Written by: Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra
- Cinematography: David Gallego
- Edited by: Etienne Boussac
- Music: Nascuy Linares
- Production design: Angélica Perea
- Produced by: Cristina Gallego
Cast
- Nilbio Torres as Karamakate (Young)
- Antonio Bolívar as Karamakate (Old)
- Jan Bijvoet as Theodor Koch-Grunberg
- Brionne Davis as Richard Evans Schultes
- Yauenkü Miguee as Manduca
- Luigi Sciamanna as The Missionary
- Nicolás Cancino as The Messiah
- Pediwake Daniel Martínez as Santiago
- José Sabogal as The Rubber Trapper
Production
- Country: Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela
- Language: Catalan, German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish
- Studios: Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar
- Budget: $1,400,000
- Box office: $1,320,005
- Themes: indigenous, religious conversion, amazon rainforest, based on true story, spirituality, colonisation, religious fundamentalism, nature, colonialism, thoughtful
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