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Embrace of the Serpent (2015) is available on Kanopy with a participating library card. Also available to stream on Philo.
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You can watch Embrace of the Serpent (2015) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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.
Shot in shimmering black and white, this Amazonian odyssey rejects typical jungle adventure tropes for a hallucinatory, spiritual journey. It captures the vanishing memory of an ancient culture through the eyes of a shaman guiding two men toward a mythical healing plant.
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Ciro Guerra
Cast
Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Luigi Sciamanna, Nicolás Cancino, Pediwake Daniel Martínez, José Sabogal
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Embrace of the Serpent
You can watch Embrace of the Serpent (2015) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
IMDb
7.7/10
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97%
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Director
Ciro Guerra
Cast
Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee, Luigi Sciamanna, Nicolás Cancino, Pediwake Daniel Martínez, José Sabogal
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