spacetime coordinate: 1909 / 1940 the amazon rainforest


Embrace of the Serpent is a 2015 internationally co-produced adventure drama film directed by Ciro Guerra and shot in black-and-white.

The film tells two stories thirty years apart, both featuring Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his tribe. He travels with two scientists, firstly with German Theo von Martius in 1909 and American named Evan in 1940, to look for the rare yakruna, a (fictional) sacred plant.