Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 2015-05-25
Runtime: 125 minutes
Director: Ciro Guerra
Budget: $1,400,000 USD
Revenue: $1,320,005 USD
Top Cast
- Nilbio Torres as Karamakate (Young)
- Antonio Bolívar as Karamakate (Old)
- Jan Bijvoet as Theodor Koch-Grunberg
- Brionne Davis as Richard Evans Schultes
- Yauenkü Miguee as Manduca
- Luigi Sciamanna as The Missionary
- Nicolás Cancino as The Messiah
- Pediwake Daniel Martínez as Santiago
- José Sabogal as The Rubber Trapper
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