Movie
Embrace of the Serpent
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
20152h 5m★ 7.7DramaAdventure
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.
Director
- Ciro Guerra
Writers
- Ciro Guerra
- Jacques Toulemonde
Producers
- Raúl Bravo · Executive Producer
- Marcelo Céspedes · Executive Producer
- Hori Mentasti · Executive Producer
- Cristina Gallego
Where to watch
Region: US · via JustWatch / TMDB
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Top cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
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Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
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Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
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Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
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José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
