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.

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Cast

• 
  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

Crew

• Director · Ciro Guerra
• Producer · Cristina Gallego