Embrace of the Serpent

An absorbing odyssey follows two scientists travelling deep into Amazon jungle looking for a rare plant with healing powers.

  • 124 mins
    • |
  • Colombia
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  • 2015
    • |
  • Director: Ciro Guerra

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Academy award nominee for best foreign language film Embrace of the Serpent centres on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him.

The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who travelled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred Yakruna plant.

CastJan Bijvoet, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis
DirectorCiro Guerra
Run time124 mins
Release date10.06.2016
Rating12
GenreInternational Cinema, Indigenous Cinema
CountryColombia
LanguageSpanish
SubtitlesEnglish
StudioPeccadillo Pictures
Embrace of the Serpent
Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

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An absorbing odyssey follows two scientists travelling deep into Amazon jungle looking for a rare plant with healing powers.

  • Director Ciro Guerra
  • Cast Jan Bijvoet, Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis
  • Language Spanish
  • Subtitles English
  • Run time 124 mins
  • Format BD50 1080P | DVD 9 PAL
  • Rating 12
  • Release Date 2016-09-12

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