

Embrace of the Serpent
"A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world."
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.
Movie Details
Budget
$1.4M
$1,400,000
Revenue
$1.3M
$1,320,005
Languages
Catalan
+4 more
Studio
Nortesur Producciones
+5 more
Key Crew

Hori Mentasti
Executive Producer

Ciro Guerra
Director

Ciro Guerra
Writer

Jacques Toulemonde
Writer

Cristina Gallego
Producer
Cast

Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper