Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

Name: Embrace of the Serpent
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Released: 2015-05-25
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee

Kernel Score: 85% · 495 ratings

Genres: Drama, Adventure

Released: 2015-05-25

Runtime: 125 minutes

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.

Director

Ciro Guerra

Cast

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