Embrace of the Serpent
2015
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Synopsis
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.
Facts
Awards
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
Setting
Peru, Amazon natural region
Original language
Spanish, Portuguese, German, Catalan, Latin, English
Trailer
Stills
Festival History
- Academy Awards 2016 academy_award
- Independent Spirit Awards 2016 generic
- Sundance Film Festival 2016 generic
- Cannes Film Festival 2015 generic
