Embrace of the Serpent

Name: Embrace of the Serpent
Director: Ciro Guerra
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Released: 2015-05-25
Duration: 125 min
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee

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2015 · 125 min · Drama · Adventure · TMDB 7.7/10

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.

Directed by Ciro Guerra

Cast

Nilbio Torres — Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar — Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet — Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis — Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee — Manduca