Embrace of the Serpent

Director

Ciro Guerra

Cast

• 

  Nilbio Torres

  Karamakate (Young)

• 

  Antonio Bolívar

  Karamakate (Old)

• 

  Jan Bijvoet

  Theodor Koch-Grunberg

• 

  Brionne Davis

  Richard Evans Schultes

• Y

  Yauenkü Miguee

  Manduca

• 

  Luigi Sciamanna

  The Missionary

• N

  Nicolás Cancino

  The Messiah

• P

  Pediwake Daniel Martínez

  Santiago

Plot 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.