Embrace of the Serpent

Drama/Book adaptation, Argentina/Colombia 2015

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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.
120 min
HD
FSK 12
Subtitles:
German

Awards

Cannes Directors' Fortnight C.I.C.A.E. Award

More information

Director:

Ciro Guerra

Template:

Theodor Koch-Grünberg (Diary Entries)

Richard Evans Schultes (Diary Entries)

Composer:

Nascuy Linares

Cast:

Nilbio Torres (Karamakate (young))

Antonio Bolívar (Karamakate (old))

Jan Bijvoet (Theodor Koch-Grunberg)

Brionne Davis (Richard Evans Schultes)

Yauenkü Miguee (Manduca)

Luigi Sciamanna (Priest Gaspar)

Nicolás Cancino (Anizetto)

Original title:

El abrazo de la serpiente

Original language:

GermanLatinPortugueseSpanish

Further titles:

O Abraço da Serpente

Format:

16:9 HD, B/W

Age rating:

FSK 12

Subtitles:

German