Embrace of the Serpent

2015

Spanish

7.8

♡ 38

97%

inspired by real stories

oscar nominated

religious fanaticism

Ciro Guerra Director

Brionne Davis as Evan

Antonio Bolivar as Old Karamakate

Jan Bijvoet as Theo

Nilbio Torres as Young Karamakate

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.