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Its early November 1923. Jewish-American brothers Abel and Max Rosenberg and Maxs ex-wife Manuela Rosenberg had a trapeze act in a circus touring through Europe until a month ago when a wrist injury to Max sidelined the act. The three remained in Berlin, Germany generally depressed with rampant inflation leading to Abel taking up the bottle to cope. Jewish people are also being blamed for many of societys problems, but Abel fears no reprisal against himself if he does nothing wrong. Abel and Manuela, the latter who ended up living in a rooming house on her own while working in a cabaret, are reunited when Abel must inform her that Max committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Feeling at a loss both professionally and emotionally, Abel and Manuela turn to each other for comfort and support, feeling they only truly have each other. Abels life becomes even more complicated when Police Inspector Bauer, who handled Maxs suicide case, questions Abel about a series of other mysterious deaths in the last month in the vicinity of where he lived, some of the people he admits to knowing if only by face. In the process, Abel begins to believe that hes being set up to take the fall solely for being Jewish. But as Manuela tries to set up some sort of life so the two of them can be together, Abel gets caught up in unwitting circumstances that might lead to the same fate as Max and the others Abel was shown in the morgue.
Ingmar Bergmans The Serpents Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American-Jewish circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin in November 1923. When his brother commits suicide, Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of his former sister-in-law Manuela, who works in a cabaret at night and in a brothel in the morning. Desperate to make ends meet in a city struggling with mass unemployment, Abel takes a job in Veregus clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.
Liv Ullmann
Manuela Rosenberg
David Carradine
Abel Rosenberg
Gert Fröbe
Inspector Bauer
Heinz Bennent
Hans Vergerus
Toni Berger
Mr. Rosenberg
Christian Berkel
Student
Paula Braend
Mrs. Hemse
Erna Brünell
Mrs. Rosenberg
Paul Bürks
Cabaret Comedian
Gaby Dohm
Woman with baby
Emil Feist
Miser
Kai Fischer
Prostitute
Georg Hartmann
Hollinger
Edith Heerdegen
Mrs. Holle
Klaus Hoffmann
Commando Announcer
Grischa Huber
Stella
Volkert Kraeft
Commando Leader
Gunther Malzacher
Husband
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