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Embrace of the serpent
Title:
Embrace of the serpent
Author:
Guerra, Ciro, 1981- , film director, screenwriter.
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : Oscilloscope Laboratories, [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
The film 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.
General Note:
Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.

Wide screen (2.35:1).

Special features: Making "Embrace of the Serpent"; Adventure, culture, history, magic; Lessons from the Amazon; theatrical trailer.
Language:
Spanish
UPC:
857490005240
Format :
Blu-Ray