Ingmar Bergman’s The Serpent’s Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany’s defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, Abel takes a job in Veregus’ clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.
Release Date: 15 February 1978Runtime: 119 min
Stars:
- Christian Berkel
- David Carradine
- Edith Heerdegen
- Emil Feist
- Erna Brünell
- Gaby Dohm
- Georg Hartmann
- Gert Fröbe
- Heinz Bennent
- Kai Fischer
- Klaus Hoffmann
- Liv Ullmann
- Paul Bürks
- Paula Braend
- Toni Berger
Director: Ingmar Bergman
