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Embrace of the Serpent

2015

125 minutes

DramaAdventure

Overview

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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Top Cast

Nilbio Torres headshot

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar headshot

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet headshot

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis headshot

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes

Yauenkü Miguee headshot

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna headshot

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino headshot

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

Pediwake Daniel Martínez headshot

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

José Sabogal headshot

José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper