The Serpents Egg (DVD, 2004, Special Edition)

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This unusual political drama by Ingmar Bergman was filmed at Bavaria Film Studios in Munich during the director's exile from Sweden after encountering problems with tax officials back home. THE SERPENT'S EGG, a big-budget German-American coproduction, was Bergman's second work in English after THE TOUCH and is set in 1920s Berlin, shortly before Hitler's rise to power. Abel (David Carradine), a Jewish trapeze artist, and his late brother's wife, Manuela (Liv Ullmann), a cabaret performer and part-time prostitute, are forced to seek employment at a medical clinic run by Dr. Vergerus (Heinz Bennent), because other work is hard to come by in the poverty-stricken and inflation-prone city. But Abel and Manuela's financial problems are overshadowed by a gruesome discovery: the mad-scientist-like Vergerus is secretly conducting human experiments--foreshadowing the horrors of the concentration camps. Carradine was considered miscast by many critics who didn't know quite what to make of this film. Nightmarish and gripping, it depicts the political turmoil, ever-increasing Nazi brutality, and general moral decay of the time period in vivid, graphic images. Bergman has admitted to being a follower of Hitler's in his youth, and some have speculated that this film, deviating from the director's usual subject matter, represented an act of repentance of sorts.

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UPC0027616902238
eBay Product ID (ePID)6477565

Product Key Features

ActorLiv Ullmann
RatingNR
EditionSpecial Edition
Movie/TV TitleSerpent's Egg
DirectorErnst Ingmar Bergman, Ingmar Bergman
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
GenreDrama

Additional Product Features

Region CodeRegion 1
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Display FormatSpecial Edition
Leading RoleLiv Ullmann
Release Date20040210
Film CountryUSA

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  • One of Bergmann's best.

    this is one of Bergman's best movies. the first time I watched it at the theater (1978)when it came out, I couldn't finish it, but I returned to it, cuz I needed to know how it ended.... not for the faint of heart. it's also rather relevant in these times.

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  • The Serpent's Egg

    Even a poorer Bergman film rivals the best of everyone else--this experiment in German fails, but not by much. Highly recommended!

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  • nice movie and interesting about Germany WWII

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  • A well acted and intense movie.

    A excellent product.

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