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Release Date: 1977

Cast: Toni Berger, Fritz Strassner, Gert Fröbe, Liv Ullmann, Georg Hartmann, Hans Quest, James Whitmore, Heinz Bennent, Christian Berkel, Isolde Barth, Edith Heerdegen, David Carradine

Categories: Movies, Thriller, World cinema, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Period piece, Political drama

The Serpent's Egg is a 1977 American-West German co-produced film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann. The story is set in 1920s Berlin and features English and German dialogue. This was Bergman's one and 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. Abel Rosenberg is an American Jew in Berlin after World War I. Poverty and inflation have destroyed the German economy at the time.... MORE

The Serpent's Egg is a 1977 American-West German co-produced film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann. The story is set in 1920s Berlin and features English and German dialogue. This was Bergman's one and 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. Abel Rosenberg is an American Jew in Berlin after World War I. Poverty and inflation have destroyed the German economy at the time. He lives with his sister-in-law Manuela, a prostitute and cabaret performer. The story takes place in the week following his brother's death. Abel takes a job offered by an acquaintance, Professor Hans Vergerus. LESS