Title: Embrace of the serpent
Original Title: El abrazo de la serpiente
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: Colombia Venezuela
- Length: 125 Minutes (2 hours 5 min)
- Genre: Drama Mystery Adventure
- Studios: Caracol Televisión
- Distributor: Abordar - Casa de Películas
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: June 10 2016
- United States: February 17 2016
Plot
Karamakate is one of the last survivors of their village and decides to live completely alone in the jungle deep. He stays a long time isolated and he has become a person without emotions and memories. But his solitary life changes when he meets Evan, an american scientist who seeks a powerful and unknown plant able to teach to dream. Karamakate decides to collaborate with Evan in his search and together begin a journey through the depths of the jungle. But the journey is much more than that: Karamakate begins to recover his forgotten memories. The film 'Embrace of the serpent' is inspired by the diaries of Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evan Schultes, two explorers who traveled to the colombian amazon.
Awards
- 2016 Academy Awards (Oscars): 1 0
Cast
Director:
Theo
Priest Gaspar
Evan
Young Karamakate
Old Karamakate
Videos
'Embrace of the serpent' trailer
December 4 2015
Photos
Trivia
In this arduous task the art department with the collaboration of women of different ethnicities, who for weeks put aside his work as farmers to lend their hands to sewing and washing.
Despite setbacks shooting could be achieved in the time
One of the most difficult aspects to represent in the film was the costumes for the actors, not so much for its design and research that led especially around parts such as indigenous guayucos.
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