---
title: 'Embrace of the Serpent (2015)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ciro Guerra'
released: '2015-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 125
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'Colombia'
  - 'Venezuela'
  - 'Argentina'
  - 'Mexico'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/embrace-of-the-serpent-2015'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4285496/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

2015 · 125 min · Drama, Adventure · Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico

Original title: El abrazo de la serpiente

## Synopsis

Embrace of the Serpent 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ciro Guerra](https://cinepixo.com/people/ciro-guerra)
- **Screenplay:** [Ciro Guerra](https://cinepixo.com/people/ciro-guerra), [Jacques Toulemonde Vidal](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-toulemonde-vidal)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Nascuy Linares](https://cinepixo.com/people/nascuy-linares)
- **Producer:** [Cristina Gallego](https://cinepixo.com/people/cristina-gallego)
- **Director of Photography:** [David Gallego](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-gallego)

## Cast

- [Jan Bijvoet](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-bijvoet) as Theo von Martius
- [Brionne Davis](https://cinepixo.com/people/brionne-davis) as Evan
- [Nilbio Torres](https://cinepixo.com/people/nilbio-torres) as young Karamakate

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Official site: http://embraceoftheserpent.oscilloscope.net/#
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/embrace-of-the-serpent-2015
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