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Embrace of the Serpent(2015)
Status: Released
Date: 2015-05-25
77%
492 Votes
Time: 2h 5m
A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.
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.
Languages: Catalan, German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish.
Countries:
Argentina,
Colombia,
Venezuela
Budget: $1,400,000.00
Revenue: $1,320,005.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Nortesur Producciones
Buffalo Films
Caracol Televisión
MC Producciones
Movie: Embrace of the Serpent
Top 9 Billed Cast
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
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