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One rainy night in Weimar Berlin, Jewish American circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) discovers that his brother Max, his trapeze-act partner, has killed himself. What follows is one of Bergman’s darkest and most fearful visions, as the drowned-in-drink Abel and Max’s ex-wife, cabaret singer Manuela (Liv Ullmann), feel increasingly unwelcome in a menacing and destitute city, eyed by the police as well as a scientist with diabolical intentions. The director’s sole big-budget Hollywood production, for which he created a surreal and atmospheric Berlin on a Munich soundstage, The Serpent’s Egg conjures a Kafkaesque nightmare about the decaying society that gave rise to the horrors of Nazism.
Original Release
10/28/1977
US Release
02/15/1978
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Liv Ullmann | Manuela Rosenberg |
David Carradine | Abel Rosenberg |
Gert Frobe | Inspector Bauer |
Heinz Bennent | Hans Vergerus |
Toni Berger | Monsieur Rosenberg / Mr. Rosenberg |
Christian Berkel | Student |
Paula Braend | Madame Hemse / Mrs. Hemse |
Erna Brünell | Madame Rosenberg / Mrs. Rosenberg |
Paul Bürks | Cabaret Comedian |
Gaby Dohm | Woman with baby / Woman with Child |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Liv Ullmann | Manuela Rosenberg |
David Carradine | Abel Rosenberg |
Gert Frobe | Inspector Bauer |
Heinz Bennent | Hans Vergerus |
Toni Berger | Monsieur Rosenberg / Mr. Rosenberg |
Christian Berkel | Student |
Paula Braend | Madame Hemse / Mrs. Hemse |
Erna Brünell | Madame Rosenberg / Mrs. Rosenberg |
Paul Bürks | Cabaret Comedian |
Gaby Dohm | Woman with baby / Woman with Child |
Emil Feist | Miser |
Kai Fischer | Hure / Prostitute |
Georg Hartmann | Hollinger |
Edith Heerdegen | Mrs. Holle |
Klaus Hoffmann | Commando Announcer |
Grischa Huber | Stella |
Volkert Kraeft | Commando Leader |
Gunther Malzacher | Husband |
Lisi Mangold | Mikaela |
Günter Meisner | Convict |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Horst Wendlandt | Executive Producer |
Dino De Laurentiis | Producer |
Harold Nebenzal | Producer |