Embrace of the Serpent

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.

  • Genre: Drama, Adventure
  • Release Date: 2015-05-25
  • Runtime: 125 min
  • Country: Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela
  • Language: Catalan, German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Status: Released
  • IMDb Rating: 7.7
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