Embrace of the Serpent

Original title: El abrazo de la serpiente

"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."

2015 ★ 7.7 125 min IMDb Spanish Ciro Guerra

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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.

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