EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

The lecture before and discussion after the film: Tomasz Adamski. Ticket 11 zł

Embrace of the Serpent / El abrazo de la serpiente
dir. Ciro Guerra / Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina 2015 / 125’

cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Yauenkü Miguee, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis

At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

http://embraceoftheserpent.oscilloscope.net/