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Embrace of the Serpent

"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."

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

    Nilbio Torres

    Karamakate (Young)

  • Antonio Bolívar

    Antonio Bolívar

    Karamakate (Old)

  • Jan Bijvoet

    Jan Bijvoet

    Theodor Koch-Grunberg

  • Brionne Davis

    Brionne Davis

    Richard Evans Schultes

  • Yauenkü Miguee

    Yauenkü Miguee

    Manduca

  • Luigi Sciamanna

    Luigi Sciamanna

    The Missionary

  • Nicolás Cancino

    Nicolás Cancino

    The Messiah

  • Pediwake Daniel Martínez

    Pediwake Daniel Martínez

    Santiago

  • José Sabogal

    José Sabogal

    The Rubber Trapper

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.

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