Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

  • NR
  • 09/26/2015 (US)
  • Drama, Adventure
  • 2h 5m

A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

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.

Jacques Toulemonde

Writer

Ciro Guerra

Writer, Director

Cast

Nilbio Torres's headshot

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar's headshot

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet's headshot

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis's headshot

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee's headshot

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna's headshot

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino's headshot

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez's headshot

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

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