Embrace of the Serpent
2015/05/25 (US) | Drama, Adventure
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.
Ciro Guerra
Director
Lead Cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
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Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
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Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
Budget
$ 1,400,000
Revenue
$ 1,320,005
Status
Released
Production Company
- Nortesur Producciones
- Buffalo Films
- Caracol Televisión
- Ciudad Lunar
Crews
Raúl Bravo
Executive Producer
Marcelo Céspedes
Executive Producer
Jose David Corredor
Production Coordinator
César Rodríguez
Production Manager
Hori Mentasti
Executive Producer
Ciro Guerra
Writer
Jacques Toulemonde
Writer