Embrace of the Serpent

Directed by Ciro Guerra

Written by Jacques Toulemonde, Ciro Guerra

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

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

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Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

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José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper

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Daniel Martínez Pediwake

Santiago

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Marcilio Paiva

Tuschaua

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Marisel Mosquera

Mujer Pueblo Cohiuano