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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

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.

  • Drama
  • Adventure

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Nilbio TorresNilbio TorresKaramakate (Young)
  • Photo of Antonio BolívarAntonio BolívarKaramakate (Old)
  • Photo of Jan BijvoetJan BijvoetTheodor Koch-Grunberg
  • Photo of Brionne DavisBrionne DavisRichard Evans Schultes
  • Photo of Yauenkü MigueeYauenkü MigueeManduca
  • Photo of Luigi SciamannaLuigi SciamannaThe Missionary
  • Photo of Nicolás CancinoNicolás CancinoThe Messiah
  • Photo of Pediwake Daniel MartínezPediwake Daniel MartínezSantiago
  • Photo of José SabogalJosé SabogalThe Rubber Trapper

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