Embrace of the Serpent

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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.

Original Title

El abrazo de la serpiente

Release Date

2015-05-25

Year

2015

Duration

2h 5m

Status

Released

Score

7.69

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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

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Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

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Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

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Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

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José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper