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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Unendlich tief unten (1977)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.