Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

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Embrace of the Serpent

"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."

2015

2h 5m

7.7(488 votes)

Drama

Adventure

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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Production Companies

Ciudad Lunar

Dago García Producciones

Videos & Trailers

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Cast & Crew

9 members

Acting

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)

Nilbio Torres

Acting

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)

Antonio Bolívar

Acting

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Jan Bijvoet

Acting

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes

Brionne Davis

Acting

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

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Acting

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Luigi Sciamanna

Acting

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

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Acting

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

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Acting

José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper

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