Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)

A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

Drama Adventure

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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  • Release Date: 2015-05-25
  • Runtime: 2h 5min
  • Director: Ciro Guerra

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You can now watch Embrace of the Serpent online on the following streaming services in the United States.

    • Trailer

    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

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