An Amazonian shaman befriends two explorers. Year 2016 Theatrical Release 2016-02-17 Video Release 2016-06-21 Studio Oscilloscope Pictures Genre Drama MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color/Black and White Runtime 76 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis 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-Grunberg and Richard Evan Schultes who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant. Director Ciro Guerra Cast Ciro Guerra