Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Directed by Ciro Guerra
In two journeys 31 years apart, the Amazonian shaman Karamakate guides a dying German ethnographer and later an American botanist by canoe through the Colombian Amazon in search of a sacred plant, the yakruna.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Karamakate's riverside camp, 1909≈ 00:02:00Colombian Amazon (Vaupés region)Inferred
In 1909 the sick Theo and his companion Manduca reach young Karamakate, who agrees to guide them to the yakruna.
- 1Karamakate's camp, 1940≈ 00:15:00Colombian Amazon (Vaupés region)Inferred
In 1940 the American botanist Evan finds the aged Karamakate and persuades him to search for the plant again.
- 2Capuchin mission, 1909≈ 00:35:00Colombian Amazon (Vaupés region)Inferred
They stop at a Catholic mission on a tributary where a Spanish priest beats orphan boys for their native ways.
- 2The mission, 1940≈ 01:00:00Colombian Amazon (Vaupés region)Inferred
- 3Frontier rubber post, 1909≈ 01:20:00Colombian Amazon (Vaupés region)Inferred
- 4Cerros de Mavecure, Guainía, Colombia≈ 01:40:00Inferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 356 km
- Places
- 2
- Countries
- 1
- Stops
- 6
- Boat: 356 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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