2016 PS Film Festival
A visually bewitching black-and-white Colombian odyssey charting parallel incursions by Western explorers deep into the Amazon jungle, this is a potent, poetic, visionary movie reminiscent of Werner Herzog’s Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo. Winner: CICAE Award, Cannes.
film details
| Director: | Ciro Guerra |
| Producers: | Cristina Gallego, Raúl Bravo, Marcelo Cespedes, Esteban Mentasti, Horacio Mentasti |
| Screenwriter: | Ciro Guerra, Jacques, Toulemonde Vidal |
| Cinematographers: | David Gallego |
| Editor: | Etienne Boussac, Cristina Gallego |
| Music: | Nascuy Linares |
| Cast: | Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Salvado Yangiama, Miguel Dionisio Ramos, Brionne Davis |
| Original Language Title: | El abrazo de la serpiente |
| Country: | Colombia/Venezuela, Argentina |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Running Time: | 123 minutes |
| Awards: | C.I.C.A.E. Award, Cannes Film Festival; Elcine First Prize - Best Film, Lima Latin American Film Festival; Golden Duke - International Competition Program, Odessa International Film Festival; Nominated: Best International Film, Independent Spirit Awards; Academy Award Nominee: Best Foreign Film |
| Display Format: | DCP |