2015 2h 5m Ciro Guerra

Embrace of the Serpent

Name: Embrace of the Serpent
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis

★ 7.8 IMDb

Drama

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.

Writers Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal

Cast Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis

DP David Gallego

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Embrace of the Serpent: An Interview with Ciro Guerra by Michael Guillén, Cineaste

On Ciro Guerra

The films of Ciro Guerra and the making of cosmopolitan spaces in Colombian cinema by Maria Luna, Philippe Meers, Alphaville

In conversation with other films

Lost in the Jungle: "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and "Embrace of the Serpent" by Yaron Dahan, MUBI Notebook Encounters with cultural difference: cosmopolitanism and exoticism in Tanna (Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, 2015) and Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015) by Daniela Berghahn, Alphaville

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