

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
2h 5m 7.0/10 IMDb
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.
Director: Ciro Guerra
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee
Content Warnings
Identity & Discrimination
Religious persecution
Other
Genocide / ethnic cleansing
Substance Use
Drug use (depicted)
Violence & Physical Harm
Slavery / forced labor
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