Embrace of the Serpent
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
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- Adventure
- Drama
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.
Keywords
- thoughtful
- nature
- based on true story
- awestruck
- indigenous peoples
- colonisation
- spirituality
- religious fundamentalism
- indigenous
- amazon rainforest
- colonialism
- religious conversion
- amazon tribe
- reminiscent
- chamanismo
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 2015
- Original language
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- catalan, german, latin, PORTUGUESE, spanish
- Countries
- Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela
- Production
- Nortesur Producciones,Buffalo Films,Caracol Televisión,Ciudad Lunar,MC Producciones,Dago García Producciones,Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones, Dago García Producciones
- Budget
- $1,400,000
- Revenue
- $1,320,005
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt4285496