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77% Critic Match
Embrace of the Serpent
“A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.”
7.7 / 10• 2015• 2h 5m•NR• Spanish
DramaAdventure
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Lead
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
YM
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
NC
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
PD
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ciro Guerra's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Embrace of the Serpent is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
