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Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

2015 · Drama · movie8.97 ratings

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.

in 19 passports

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

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper

director

Ciro Guerra

where to watch

YouTube TV
Philo
Night Flight Plus
OVID
Fandor Amazon Channel
Cineverse Amazon Channel

trailers

information

genres

Drama, Adventure

budget

$1.4M

revenue

$1.3M

original title

El abrazo de la serpiente

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