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DRAMA · ADVENTURE · Argentine · Colombia · Venezuela

Embrace of the Serpent

2015YEAR125′RUNTIMECiro GuerraDIRECTOR

SYNOPSIS

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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CAST

Nilbio TorresAntonio BolívarJan BijvoetBrionne DavisYauenkü MigueeLuigi SciamannaNicolás CancinoPediwake Daniel Martínez

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Nortesur Producciones · Buffalo Films · Caracol Televisión · Ciudad Lunar · MC Producciones

IDENTIFIERS

· tt4285496 · TMDB 336808

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