About Embrace of the Serpent
- Released on May 25, 2015
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.
Full Cast of Embrace of the Serpent
Nilbio Torres plays Karamakate (Young)
Antonio Bolívar plays Karamakate (Old)
Jan Bijvoet plays Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Jan Bijvoet was born on December 28, 1966 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. He is an actor and composer, known for Pea...
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