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Embrace of the Serpent
Embrace of the Serpent

Embrace of the Serpent

A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.

Genres

DramaAdventure

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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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Budget

$1400000

Revenue

$1320005

Status

Released

Original Language

Spanish

Runtime

125 mins

Rating

7.694/10

Release Date

25 May 2015

Country

Argentina

Cast

Nilbio Torres

Nilbio Torres

Karamakate (Young)

Antonio Bolívar

Antonio Bolívar

Karamakate (Old)

Jan Bijvoet

Jan Bijvoet

Theodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne Davis

Brionne Davis

Richard Evans Schultes

Yauenkü Miguee

Yauenkü Miguee

Manduca

Luigi Sciamanna

Luigi Sciamanna

The Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

Nicolás Cancino

The Messiah

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Santiago

José Sabogal

José Sabogal

The Rubber Trapper

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