Embrace of the Serpent
movie
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
Released May 25, 2015
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.
Cast
Nilbio Torres
as
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
as
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
as
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
as
Richard Evans Schultes
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Yauenkü Miguee
as
Manduca
Luigi Sciamanna
as
The Missionary
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Nicolás Cancino
as
The Messiah
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Pediwake Daniel Martínez
as
Santiago
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José Sabogal
as
The Rubber Trapper
Crew
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Raúl Bravo
as
Executive Producer
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Marcelo Céspedes
as
Executive Producer
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Jose David Corredor
as
Production Coordinator
Hori Mentasti
as
Executive Producer
Ciro Guerra
as
Director
Ciro Guerra
as
Writer
Jacques Toulemonde
as
Writer
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Etienne Boussac
as
Editor
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Gustavo Moyano
as
Casting
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Angélica Perea
as
Production Design
Cristina Gallego
as
Producer
Esteban Mentasti
as
Co-Producer