Embrace of the Serpent
Released
May 25, 2015
Runtime: 2h 5m
The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.
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Cast & Crew
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
- YM
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
- NC
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
- PM
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
- JS
José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
Ciro Guerra
Director
Jacques Toulemonde
Writer
Ciro Guerra
Writer
Media
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