Embrace of the Serpent
Adventure/Book adaptation, Venezuela/Colombia 2015
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.
120 min
HD
FSK 12
German
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Cast:
Nilbio Torres (Karamakate (young))
Antonio Bolívar (Karamakate (old))
Jan Bijvoet (Theodor Koch-Grunberg)
Brionne Davis (Richard Evans Schultes)
Yauenkü Miguee (Manduca)
Luigi Sciamanna (Priest Gaspar)
Nicolás Cancino (Anizetto)
Original title:
El abrazo de la serpiente
Original language:
GermanLatinPortugueseSpanish
Further titles:
O Abraço da Serpente
Format:
16:9 HD, B/W
Age rating:
FSK 12
Subtitles:
German