Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent
7.6

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Directed by: Ciro Guerra

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.

Embrace of the Serpent

Reviews (2)

  • Andres Gomez (Rated: 8)

    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 sile...

  • Reno (Rated: 8)

    In any world, the history keeps repeating itself.

    It is one of the last films to I watch from the 2016 Oscars nominees. It was a Colombian production that represented the country in the 88th American Academy Awards. It had all the qualities to win that major international award, but lost the be...

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