Embrace of the Serpent
“A poetic and haunting journey into a lost world.”
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.
Genres
Drama, Adventure
Studio
Nortesur Producciones
Language
es
Status
Released
How Embrace of the Serpent performed
Budget
$1.4M
Worldwide Gross
$1.3M
Gross Profit
−$79,995
Return
0.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$190K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
Karamakate (Young)
Nilbio Torres
Karamakate (Young)
Karamakate (Old)
Antonio Bolívar
Karamakate (Old)
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Jan Bijvoet
Theodor Koch-Grunberg
Richard Evans Schultes
Brionne Davis
Richard Evans Schultes
Manduca
Yauenkü Miguee
Manduca
The Missionary
Luigi Sciamanna
The Missionary
The Messiah
Nicolás Cancino
The Messiah
Santiago
Pediwake Daniel Martínez
Santiago
The Rubber Trapper
José Sabogal
The Rubber Trapper
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