Embrace of the Serpent (2015) on Netflix
NR20152h 5mAdventureBiographyDrama
Karamakate, a shaman and the last survivor of his people, travels the Colombian Amazon with a German ethnographer and an American botanist, thirty years apart, seeking the sacred plant yakruna.
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- Netflix4.4/5
- IMDb7.8/1026,106 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes96%
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Plot summary
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Cast
- Yauenkü Migueeas Manduca
- Nicolás Cancinoas El Mesías
- Pediwake Daniel Martinezas Santiago
- José Sabogalas El Siringuero
- Miguel Dionisio Ramosas Manduca
- Marcilio Paivaas Tuschaua
- Jaime Pereiraas Payé Cohiuano
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
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- Ciro Guerra struggled to find an actor to play the shaman Karamakate until he remembered Antonio Bolívar, whose two-minute performance in a short film he had seen more than ten years earlier at a Ministry of Culture workshop. Bolívar was one of the last of the Ocaina people, of whom only about sixteen remain.
- Embrace of the Serpent was Colombia's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2016 Academy Awards and reached the final five, making it the first Colombian film ever nominated in that category.
- Because the Amazon environment was so harsh, the indigenous people involved taught the crew how to work in the jungle and performed rituals for spiritual protection. The production had no accidents or illnesses and the shoot ran smoothly.
- A special screening of the film was held in a makeshift cinema in the Colombian jungle. So many tribal people from across the area came that not everyone could be seated, and when it ended the audience asked for it to be shown again.
- The governor of Colombia's Guainía Department decorated director Ciro Guerra with the Order of the Inírida Flower, citing the film for exalting respect and value of the indigenous populations and bringing the department recognition for tourism and culture.
