Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

Plot Summary

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.

Movie Details

Original Title

El abrazo de la serpiente

Status

released

Original Language

es

Budget

$1.4M

Revenue

$1.3M

Where to watch free (US)

Production Companies

Nortesur Producciones

Buffalo Films

Caracol Televisión

Ciudad Lunar

MC Producciones

Dago García Producciones