Embrace of the Serpent

Synopsis

“This film tells 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. Karamakate, last survivor of his people, dwells deep in the jungle, in solitary isolation. Decades of solitude have turned him into a chullachaqui, an empty shell of a human, devoid of memories and emotion. His hollow life is shaken with the arrival of Evens, an American ethnobotanist in search of the yakruna, a powerful sacred plant, capable of teaching men how to dream. Together they embark on a journey deep in the heart of the Amazon, where past, present and future are intertwined, and in which Karamakate will slowly begin to regain the lost memories” (Ciudad Lunar) “Ciro Guerra’s visually majestic film pays tribute to the lost cultures and civilizations of the Colombian Amazon.” (Variety)

Saturday, 28.11.2015 – 7.30 pm, Screen 8
Sunday, 29.11.2015 – 21.45 Uhr, Screen 6 (presented by Dietrich Brüggemann) – in the presence of director Ciro Guerra
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