
Embrace of the Serpent | El abrazo de la serpiente
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.
Description: 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.
Genres: Drama, Adventure
Homepage: http://embraceoftheserpent.oscilloscope.net/
Budget: $1,400,000 | Revenue : $1,320,005
Runtime: 125 minutes

Birds of Passage

Goodbye Solo

Dante's Lunch

Compostelle, le chemin de la vie

Boy Eating the Bird's Food

A Buddha

Norte, The End of History

Mug

Me Two

As I Open My Eyes

Nilbio Torres
Played Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar
Played Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet
Played Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis
Played Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee
Played Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna
Played The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino
Played The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Played Santiago
José Sabogal
Played The Rubber Trapper
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