The Serpent's Egg Movie Review 1978

Big disappointment from the great Bergman in his second film in English. Ullmann is not sultry and Carradine is horrible. Big budget matched by big Bergman ego, making a big, bad parody of himself. The plot concerns a pair of Jewish trapeze artists surviving in Berlin during Hitler's rise by working in a grisly and mysterious medical clinic.

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Available on VHS
Running time 119 minutes.
Originally from German.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Carnivals & Circuses, Judaism, Berlin, Director/Star Teams: Bergman & Ullmann, The Holocaust

Screenplay

Ingmar Bergman

Cast

David Carradine, Liv Ullmann, Gert Frobe, James Whitmore

Cinematography

Sven Nykvist

Director

Ingmar Bergman

Producer

Dino De Laurentiis