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Drama / Adventure

Embrace of the Serpent

A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

20152h 5m 7.7/ 10

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.

Cast

  • Nilbio TorresKaramakate (Young)
  • Antonio BolívarKaramakate (Old)
  • Jan BijvoetTheodor Koch-Grunberg
  • Brionne DavisRichard Evans Schultes
  • Y
    Yauenkü MigueeManduca
  • Luigi SciamannaThe Missionary
  • N
    Nicolás CancinoThe Messiah
  • P
    Pediwake Daniel MartínezSantiago
  • J
    José SabogalThe Rubber Trapper
  • D
    Daniel Martínez PediwakeSantiago
  • M
    Marcilio PaivaTuschaua
  • M
    Marisel MosqueraMujer Pueblo Cohiuano
  • P
    Pedro BolívarBorracho Cohiuano
  • F
    Fabián RojasSoldado Peruano
  • G
    Gaudencio ToroSoldado Peruano
  • B
    Blanca Inés RiveraMujer que ofrece pescado

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