Film

The Serpent's Egg 1977

Directed by Ingmar Bergman

  • Mystery, Drama, Thriller
  • 120 min
  • R

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

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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  • Suicide or self-harm
  • Addiction

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Grave, earnest, prestige and contemplative.

  • gravecomic
  • earnestironic
  • unpretentiousprestige
  • contemplativerelentless
  • warmbleak

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