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Film · 2015 · ★ 7.7

Embrace of the Serpent

El abrazo de la serpiente

Plot

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.

Genres
Drama, Adventure
Year
2015
Runtime
125 min
Director
Ciro Guerra
Cast
Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Luigi Sciamanna, Nicolás Cancino, Pediwake Daniel Martínez, José Sabogal, Daniel Martínez Pediwake
TMDB rating
7.7 / 10

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