Embrace of the Serpent

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.

Directed by Ciro Guerra

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Cast

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper

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