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Embrace of the Serpent

  • May 25, 2015
  • 125 min.
  • Drama, Adventure
  • Argentina
  • Colombia
  • Venezuela
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.

Original title: El abrazo de la serpiente

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Academy Awards #88 - 2016

Award People Status
Best International Feature Film Ciro Guerra