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Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

# A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Drama   Adventure
📜 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.
💵 Budget: USD 1,400,000
🌏 Languages Available: Catalan , German , Latin , Portuguese , Spanish
📆 Date Released: 2015-05-25
⌚ Running Time: 125 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.7

Beloved Cast

Nilbio Torres original image
Karamakate (Young)
Nilbio Torres
Antonio Bolívar original image
Karamakate (Old)
Antonio Bolívar
Jan Bijvoet original image
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Jan Bijvoet
Brionne Davis original image
Richard Evans Schultes
Brionne Davis
Yauenkü Miguee original image
Manduca
Yauenkü Miguee
Luigi Sciamanna original image
The Missionary
Luigi Sciamanna
Nicolás Cancino original image
The Messiah
Nicolás Cancino
Pediwake Daniel Martínez original image
Santiago
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
José Sabogal original image
The Rubber Trapper
José Sabogal

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