May 25, 2015
125 min
Full-HD

Embrace of the Serpent (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.

Category

Drama Adventure

Country

Argentina Colombia Venezuela

Companies

Nortesur Producciones Buffalo Films Caracol Televisión Ciudad Lunar MC Producciones Dago García Producciones

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

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