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Embrace of the Serpent

Original title: El abrazo de la serpiente

“A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.”

★ 7.7 TMDB Rating · 531 votes

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.

Director
Ciro Guerra
Release date
May 25, 2015
Original language
Spanish
Origin
Colombia

Cast of Embrace of the Serpent

  • Portrait of Nilbio Torres

    Nilbio Torres

    Karamakate (Young)

  • Portrait of Antonio Bolívar

    Antonio Bolívar

    Karamakate (Old)

  • Portrait of Jan Bijvoet

    Jan Bijvoet

    Theodor Koch-Grunberg

  • Portrait of Brionne Davis

    Brionne Davis

    Richard Evans Schultes

  • Yauenkü Miguee

    Manduca

  • Portrait of Luigi Sciamanna

    Luigi Sciamanna

    The Missionary

  • Nicolás Cancino

    The Messiah

  • Pediwake Daniel Martínez

    Santiago

  • José Sabogal

    The Rubber Trapper

Where to Stream Embrace of the Serpent by Country

United States
Streaming on Philo, Night Flight Plus, OVIDRent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies
United Kingdom
Rent or buy on Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video
India
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Canada
Streaming on Prime Video, PlexRent or buy on CosmoGo
Australia
Rent or buy on Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube Movies

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