Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela

Drama, Adventure

Nortesur Producciones, Buffalo Films, Caracol Televisión, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones, Dago García Producciones

Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Luigi Sciamanna

Ciro Guerra

Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde

Taglines: A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

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

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.

Reviews:

Author: tanty
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. Ciro Guerra es smart to use black and white and the landscapes of the Amazonas to fill all the silences of the movie. The cast is quite good, specially the 2 actors performing Karamakate; Nibio Torres and Antonio Bolivar.