Embrace of the Serpent
Original title: El abrazo de la serpiente
“A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.”
7.7(533)20152h 5mES
Directed by Ciro Guerra
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.
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indigenousreligious conversionamazon rainforestbased on true storyspiritualitycolonisationreligious fundamentalismnaturecolonialismthoughtfulamazon tribeindigenous peoples
Budget $1.4MBox office $1.3M
