# Embrace of the Serpent (2015) — on MUBI?

- **Director:** Ciro Guerra
- **Cast:** Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee
- **Genres:** Adventure, Drama
- **Runtime:** 124 min
- **MUBI rating:** 8.7/10 (2476 ratings)

- 🔜 Coming to MUBI 🇮🇹 Italy on November 12
## Also streaming on
- 🇨🇦 Canada: Amazon Prime Video
- 🇮🇹 Italy: Amazon Prime Video

## Synopsis
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.

Watch on MUBI: https://mubi.com/films/embrace-of-the-serpent

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