The Serpent's Egg

The Serpent's Egg

The kind of terror that could never be... until now... until Bergman!

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

Produced by ZDF, Bavaria Film

1977120 min6.2 / 10

A bleak, introspective descent into psychological despair set against the collapse of Weimar Germany, where personal trauma mirrors societal decay.

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

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