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Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 25, 2015

Runtime

2h 5m

Genres

Drama, Adventure

User Score

77%

Original Title

El abrazo de la serpiente

Production Companies

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

Director

Ciro Guerra

Budget

$1,400,000

Revenue

$1,320,005

Description

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.