Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

Original title: El abrazo de la serpiente

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7.7/10

(475)

5/25/2015

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2h 5min

Embrace of the Serpent
Drama
Adventure

Synopsis

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.

Direction: Ciro Guerra

Screenwriter: Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra
Producer: Cristina Gallego
Budget 1M

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

Luigi Sciamanna

Luigi Sciamanna

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