Embrace of the Serpent

The story

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 & crew

Nilbio TorresKaramakate (Young)

Antonio BolívarKaramakate (Old)

Jan BijvoetTheodor Koch-Grunberg

Brionne DavisRichard Evans Schultes

Yauenkü Miguee

Yauenkü MigueeManduca

Luigi SciamannaThe Missionary

Nicolás Cancino

Nicolás CancinoThe Messiah

Pediwake Daniel Martínez

Pediwake Daniel MartínezSantiago

José Sabogal

José SabogalThe Rubber Trapper