Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

Embrace of the Serpent (2015) is a Drama, Adventure film directed by Ciro Guerra, rated 7.7/10 by 514 viewers.

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.

Where to stream (US): Philo, YouTube TV, Night Flight Plus, OVID, Fandor Amazon Channel, Cineverse Amazon Channel.

Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee.