indigenous,religious conversion,amazon rainforest,based on true story,spirituality,colonisation,religious fundamentalism,nature,colonialism,amazon tribe,indigenous peoples

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

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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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Ciro Guerra
  • Profile picture of Nilbio Torres
    Karamakate (Young) Nilbio Torres
  • Profile picture of Antonio Bolívar
    Karamakate (Old) Antonio Bolívar
  • Profile picture of Jan Bijvoet
    Theodor Koch-Grunberg Jan Bijvoet
  • Profile picture of Brionne Davis
    Richard Evans Schultes Brionne Davis
  • Profile picture of Luigi Sciamanna
    The Missionary Luigi Sciamanna

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Keywords

  • indigenous
  • religious conversion
  • amazon rainforest
  • based on true story
  • spirituality
  • colonisation
  • religious fundamentalism
  • nature
  • colonialism
  • amazon tribe
  • indigenous peoples