A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

Embrace of the Serpent

2015 7.5/10

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.

Release Date
5/25/2015
Runtime
2 hours and 5 minutes
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Budget
$1,400,000

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