Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)

Mon Feb 13, 2017 to
Wed Feb 15, 2017

21:00

Location

Cine Studio
(University of Nicosia)
46 Makedonitissas Avenue
Nicosia, Nicosia

Friends of Cinema Society
Phone: 96420491

Description

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.

Cast:
Brionne Davis (Richard Evans Schultes)
Jan Bijvoet (Theodor Koch-Grunberg)
Luigi Sciamanna (Priest Gaspar)
Nilbio Torres (Young Karamakate)

Director: Ciro Guerra
Runtime: 125 min
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Greek
Production Year: 2015

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