Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
7.7
/10 By 453 Votes
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.
Release Date : May 25, 2015
Runtime : 125m
Companies : Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones, Dago García Producciones
Countries : Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela
Keywords : indigenous, religious conversion, amazon rainforest, based on true story, spirituality, colonisation, religious fundamentalism, nature, colonialism, amazon tribe, indigenous peoples
