Film · Drama, Adventure
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
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.
- Director
- Ciro Guerra
- Writers
- Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra
- Country
- Colombia
- Language
- Spanish
- Release date
- May 25, 2015
- Original title
- El abrazo de la serpiente
Cast
Nilbio TorresKaramakate (Young)
Antonio BolívarKaramakate (Old)
Jan BijvoetTheodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne DavisRichard Evans Schultes- Yauenkü MigueeManduca
Luigi SciamannaThe Missionary- Nicolás CancinoThe Messiah
- Pediwake Daniel MartínezSantiago
- José SabogalThe Rubber Trapper
