Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
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.
Cast
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Nilbio Torres
as Karamakate (Young)
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Antonio Bolívar
as Karamakate (Old)
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Jan Bijvoet
as Theodor Koch-Grunberg
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Brionne Davis
as Richard Evans Schultes
- Yauenkü Miguee as Manduca
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Luigi Sciamanna
as The Missionary
- Nicolás Cancino as The Messiah
- Pediwake Daniel Martínez as Santiago
- José Sabogal as The Rubber Trapper
Crew
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Ciro Guerra
Director
- David Gallego Director of Photography
- Etienne Boussac Editor
- Nascuy Linares Original Music Composer
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Cristina Gallego
Producer
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Jacques Toulemonde
Writer
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Ciro Guerra
Writer
