Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Nilbio Torres
Young Karamakate
Jan Bijvoet
Theo Koch-Grünberg
Antonio Bolívar
Old Karamakate
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Brionne Davis
Evan Schultes
Miguel Dionisio Ramos
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
Gaspar, el Misionero
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
Nicolás Cancino
El Mesías
Jacques Toulemonde
Writer
José Sabogal
El Siringuero
Ciro Guerra
Director
Cristina Gallego
Producer
Esteban Mentasti
Co-Producer
Ramses Benjumea
Art Direction
Andrés Barrientos
Still Photographer
Richard Evans Schultes
Writer
Nascuy Linares
Composer
David Gallego
Cinematographer
Etienne Boussac
Editor
Gustavo Moyano
CastingDirector
Alejandro Franco
Set Decoration
Angélica Perea
ProductionDesigner
Giovanni Barrios
Gaffer
Raúl Bravo
Executive Producer
Catherine Rodríguez
Costume Design
Jose David Corredor
Production Coordinator
Nerina Valido
Foley
Alirio Cruz
Assistant Art Director
Carlos García
Sound Designer / Supervising Sound Editor
Marco Salaverría
Sound Recordist / Dialogue Editor
Huver González
First Assistant Camera
Andres Cordoba
Still Photographer
Liliana Merizalde
Still Photographer
Ana María Jauregui
Makeup Artist
Geraldine Vargas
Assistant Costume Designer
Marcelo Céspedes
Executive Producer
Hori Mentasti
Executive Producer
César Rodríguez
Production Manager
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 25, 2015
Original NameEl abrazo de la serpiente
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 5m
Budget$1,400,000
Box Office$1,320,005
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Wiki.
Embrace of the Serpent (Spanish: El abrazo de la serpiente) is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra, and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Shot almost entirely in black and white, the film follows two journeys made thirty years apart by the indigenous shaman Karamakate in the Colombian Amazonian jungle, one with Theo, a German ethnographer, and the other with Evan, an American botanist, both of whom are searching for the rare plant yakruna. It was inspired by the travel diaries of Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures.
Embrace of the Serpent was premiered on 15 May 2015 during the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Art Cinema Award. The film was released in Colombia on 21 May 2015, and worldwide over the course of the following twelve months. It has received universal acclaim from critics, who praised the cinematography and the story's theme, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and way of life by white colonialism. It has won numerous awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, the Grand Jury Prize for Best Picture at the 2017 Riviera International Film Festival, and seven awards at the 3rd Platino Awards to recognise the best Ibero-American films of 2015, including the Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Film. In 2016 the film was submitted as Colombia's entry for the category of Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards and was included among the final five nominees, becoming the first Colombian film ever to receive a nomination for an Academy Award.