Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world. 2015-05-25 Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela 125 Min. PG-13
7.7 453 votes

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.

Cast

Nilbio Torres is Karamakate (Young)
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar is Karamakate (Old)
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet is Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis is Richard Evans Schultes
Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee is Manduca
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna is The Missionary
The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino is The Messiah
The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez is Santiago
Santiago
José Sabogal is The Rubber Trapper
The Rubber Trapper

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