The Serpent's Egg (1977)

Directed by

Ingmar Bergman

Genre

drama film, thriller film, mystery film

Country

Germany, Sweden, United States

Runtime

1h 59m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 128 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German Jewish trapeze artist struggles to find work in 1920s Berlin. He and his ex-wife live in a boarding house while a series of mysterious deaths unsettle the city.

bleaktensemelancholicslow-burnunsettlingsombercerebraldarkly atmospheric

What happens

The Serpent's Egg is a 1977 drama-mystery film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann. The story is set in 1920s Berlin and features English and German dialogue. It was Bergman's only Hollywood film. The title is taken from a line spoken by Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which hatch'd, would as his kind grow mischievous; / And kill him in the shell". Even though the film was a critical and commercial failure upon its initial release, Bergman was reported to be happy with the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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