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The Serpent's Egg (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
119 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1977 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Ingmar Bergman

Written By:
Ingmar Bergman

Actors:
Liv Ullmann ..... Manuela Rosenberg
David Carradine ..... Abel Rosenberg
Gert Fröbe ..... Inspector Bauer (as Gert Froebe)
Heinz Bennent ..... Hans Vergerus
Isolde Barth ..... Girl in uniform
Toni Berger ..... Mr. Rosenberg
Christian Berkel ..... Student
Richard Bohne ..... Police officer
Paula Braend ..... Mrs. Hemse
Erna Brünell ..... Mrs. Rosenberg (as Erna Bruenell)
Paul Burian ..... Experiment person
Hildegard Busse ..... Prostitute
Paul Bürks ..... Cabaret Comedian (as Paul Buerks)
Gaby Dohm ..... Woman with baby
Hans Eichler ..... Max
Emil Feist ..... Miser
Kai Fischer ..... Prostitute
Herbert Fux ..... Prostitute
Renate Grosser ..... Groom
Heino Hallhuber ..... Hollinger
Georg Hartmann ..... Mrs. Holle
Edith Heerdegen ..... Girl in uniform
Rosemarie Heinikel ..... Commando announcer
Klaus Hoffmann ..... Stella
Grischa Huber ..... Coroner
Harry Kalenberg ..... Leader of the commanco
Volkert Kraeft ..... Girl in uniform
Andrea L'Arronge ..... Husband
Gunther Malzacher ..... Mikaela
Lisi Mangold ..... Girl in uniform
Beverly McNeely ..... Convict (as Guenter Meisner)
Günter Meisner ..... Comforter
Anne Mertin ..... Miss Dorst
Hubert Mittendorf ..... Wife
Kyra Mladeck ..... Dr. Silbermann
Heide Picha ..... Doctor
Hans Quest ..... Solomon
Charles Regnier ..... Bride
Walter Schmidinger ..... Dr. Soltermann
Irene Steinbeisser ..... Monroe
Fritz Strassner ..... Hostess
Glynn Turman ..... Woman in street
Ellen Umlauf ..... Civil servant
Hertha von Walther ..... The Priest
Wolfgang Weiser ..... Partner of the master of ceremonies
James Whitmore
Ralf Wolter

Synopsis:

In November of 1923, in a Berlin where a pack of cigarettes costs four million marks and people has lost faith in the present and future days, the alcoholic and unemployed American acrobat Abel Rosenberg loses his brother Max, who has just committed suicide after feeling depressed for a period. Seeing the modifications in the behavior of people, but without clearly understanding the reasons, Abel moves to the room of his former sister-in-law Manuela Rosenberg, who works in a cabaret in the night and in a whorehouse in the morning. Together, they move to a small apartment near to the clinic of their acquaintance, Professor Hans Vergerus, who gives a job opportunity to Abel in his clinic. While working in the place, Abel discloses the evil truth behind the researches of Hans.

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.

Out-of-work trapeze artist Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) finds the only way to navigate the surreal circus that is 1923 Berlin is to stay drunk. But even through his stupor, he can see the thread of a frightening mystery - everyone he knows, even his most distant acquaintances, is dying violently. Can he survive...or will his mind and soul completely unravel?

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