The Serpent's Egg

A Rialto Film Production
West Germany / USA 1977 - 119 min.
Distributed by Tobis
Premiered: 26. 10. 1977
FSK: ab 18, f

Cast

Abel Rosenberg   David Carradine
Manuela Rosenberg   Liv Ullmann
Kommissar Bauer   Gert Fröbe
Hans Vergérus   Heinz Bennent
Pfarrer   James Whitmore
Monroe   Glynn Turman
etc.

Crew

Screenplay und Director:   Ingmar Bergman
Director of Photography:   Sven Nykvist
Music:   Rolf Wilhelm

Plot outline

An American Jewish performer comes to Germany in November 1923, looses his work and is suspected of several murders, which happened in his closest environment within shortest time. Ingmar Bergmann tries in his fortieth feature film (his first outside of Sweden), to analyze fascism based on a fable.