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Embrace of the Serpent

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7.7/10 • 458

2015-05-252h 5m

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A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

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.

Directors
Ciro Guerra
Writters
Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra
Editors
Jacques Toulemonde, Etienne Boussac

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Nilbio Torres

    Nilbio Torres

    Karamakate (Young)

  2. Antonio Bolívar

    Antonio Bolívar

    Karamakate (Old)

  3. Jan Bijvoet

    Jan Bijvoet

    Theodor Koch-Grunberg

  4. Brionne Davis

    Brionne Davis

    Richard Evans Schultes

  5. Yauenkü Miguee

    Yauenkü Miguee

    Manduca

  6. Luigi Sciamanna

    Luigi Sciamanna

    The Missionary

  7. Nicolás Cancino

    Nicolás Cancino

    The Messiah

  8. Pediwake Daniel Martínez

    Pediwake Daniel Martínez

    Santiago

  9. José Sabogal

    José Sabogal

    The Rubber Trapper

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Andres Gomez

Oct 23, 2015

8/10

Good and complete movie touching several topics at the same time; the destruction through the conquest of the native cultures and knowlege in America and the vital path of 4 different human beings. Ciro Guerra es smart to use black and white and the landscapes of the Amazonas to fill all the silences of the movie. The cast is quite good, specially the 2 actors performing Karamakate; Nibio Torres and Antonio Bolivar.

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Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Budget
$1,400,000.00
Revenue
$1,320,005.00
Keywords
indigenousreligious conversionamazon rainforestbased on true storyspiritualitycolonisationreligious fundamentalismnaturecolonialismamazon tribeindigenous peoples