2015
7.7 (468 votes)
2h 5m
Official Website
Genres
Drama
Adventure
Production Companies
Nortesur Producciones
Buffalo Films
Caracol Televisión
Ciudad Lunar
MC Producciones
Dago García Producciones
Buffalo Films
Caracol Televisión
Ciudad Lunar
MC Producciones
Dago García Producciones
Embrace of the Serpent (El abrazo de la serpiente)
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra
Director: Ciro Guerra
Director of Photography: David Gallego
Producer: Cristina Gallego
Top Cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
Videos
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