Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

Not under 12

Where to watch

Rent

Plot

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.

Cast

Nilbio TorresKaramakate (Young)

Antonio BolívarKaramakate (Old)

Jan BijvoetTheodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne DavisRichard Evans Schultes

Writers and directors

Ciro GuerraDirectorf. -0001

Other films by the same director

Waiting for the Barbarians2019

Birds of Passage2018

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TMDB reviews

Andres Gomez ★ 8.0/10

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. …23. Oct 2015

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Reno ★ 8.0/10

> 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 Amer…4. Jul 2016

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Awards

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Tilnefnd til Óskarsverðlauna sem besta erlenda mynd. Myndin vann til verðlauna í Director’s Fortnight flokknum í Cannes. Fjöldi annarra verðlauna.

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