

Embrace of the Serpent
Original Title: âEl abrazo de la serpienteâ
âA poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.â
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.
Top Cast

Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)

Antonio BolĂvar
Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
YauenkĂŒ Miguee
Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
NicolĂĄs Cancino
The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel MartĂnez
Santiago
José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
Key Film Crew
Production Stats
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