Embrace of the Serpent
- Released on
- Runtime
- 125 mins
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.
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
