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Embrace of the Serpent

Movie
2015
2h 5m
Spanish
Drama, Adventure
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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Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolvar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
Nicols Cancino
The Messiah
Jos Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
Directed By: Ciro Guerra

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smallclone says...
6 years ago
Phenomenal account of two explorers, 30 years apart, trying to find a mysterious healing plant in the Amazon jungle. We follow their journeys and see how the amazon is set to be torn apart by 'whites'. The shamen that is the last of his tribe leads both expeditions and teaches the explorers what it is to dream, be alive and at one with nature. There is one unforgettable moment when the expedition party encounters a rubber plant extractor. David Gallego's photography and the sound editing is just incredible. It's a unique spiritual experience. A remarkable film.
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LucanReynolds-deleted-1616190250 says...
5 years ago
Wow. It took me way too long to realise that this film is something truly special. For the first hour, I was loving what I had as a very engaging adventure flick, but without the film necessarily changing drastically, my thoughts towards it ascended during a certain religious sequence - the first time I felt tension towards this film...and by the end of the movie, I had just felt so many different things during these two hours of escapism. This is world cinema at its finest, with a steady pace that dazzled me silly! I will definitely see Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage very soon because this was such a beautiful achievement, and was the first Colombian film to get nominated for the 'Best Foreign Film' Oscar. Amen. :pray:
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Andres Gomez
6 years ago
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 sile More
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Reno
6 years ago
> In any world, the history keeps repeating itself.

It is one of the last films to I watch from the 2016 Oscars nominees. It was a Colombian production that represented the country in the 88th American Academy Awards. It had all the qualities to win that major international award, but lost the be More
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