Film
Embrace of the Serpent
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.
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 TorresKaramakate (Young)
- Antonio BolívarKaramakate (Old)
- Jan BijvoetTheodor Koch-Grunberg
- Brionne DavisRichard Evans Schultes
- Yauenkü MigueeManduca
- Luigi SciamannaThe Missionary
- Nicolás CancinoThe Messiah
- Pediwake Daniel MartínezSantiago
