Embrace of the Serpent
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Alternate/Foreign Title: El abrazo de la serpiente [Original title]
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2016-06-21
Genre: Foreign
Sub-genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Ciro Guerra
Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Migue, Nicolás Cancino, Luigi Sciamanna, Pediwake Daniel Martinez, José Sabogal
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evan Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.
Source: VideoETA.com
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