The Serpent's Egg
HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR OWN SANITY IN A WORLD GONE MAD?
In 1977, legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona) teamed up with the equally legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis (La strada, Danger: Diabolik) for what would be the director’s one and only Hollywood feature.
Berlin, 1923. Out-of-work circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine, Bound in Glory, Kill Bill) is living in poverty. When his brother commits suicide, he moves into the apartment of his cabaret singer sister-in-law (Liv Ullmann, The Emigrants, Scenes from a Marriage), but the pair soon attract the attentions of both the police and a professor with a terrifying area of research when they start to make enquiries about his mysterious death.
One of Bergman’s darkest – and most unlikely – films, The Serpent’s Egg is a hypnotic, Kafkaesque tale of paranoia in a poisoned city.
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- Audio Commentary by actor David Carradine
- Bergman’s Egg – a newly filmed appreciation by critic and author Barry Forshaw
- Away From Home, archival featurette including interviews with David Carradine and Liv Ullmann
- German Expressionism, archival interview with Author Marc Gervais
- Stills gallery
- Theatrical trailer
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by author and critic Geoffrey Macnab