Embrace of the Serpent

Name: Embrace of the Serpent
Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Ciro GuerraWriter: Jacques ToulemondeProducers: Cristina Gallego, Hori Mentasti, Marcelo Céspedes, Raúl Bravo

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

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