Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

125 mins | Drama, Adventure | May 25, 2015

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.

Embrace of the Serpent

125 mins | Drama, Adventure | May 25, 2015

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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Caracol Televisión, Buffalo Films, Dago García Producciones Ltda, Nortesur Producciones, Ciudad Lunar, MC Producciones
Original title El abrazo de la serpiente
Directors Ciro Guerra
Writers Jacques Toulemonde Vidal, Ciro Guerra

Cast

Nilbio Torres

as Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar

as Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet

as Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis

as Richard Evans Schultes

Yauenkü Miguee

as Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna

as The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

as The Messiah

José Sabogal

as The Rubber Trapper