Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

Released on
Drama, Adventure
Runtime
125 mins
(453 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Nilbio Torres
  • Antonio Bolívar
  • Jan Bijvoet
  • Brionne Davis
  • Yauenkü Miguee
  • Luigi Sciamanna
  • Nicolás Cancino
  • Pediwake Daniel Martínez
  • José Sabogal

Director

  • Ciro Guerra

Producers

  • Cristina Gallego

Screenwriter

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