Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of 嗄bel Rosenberg, an out-of-work 嗄merican circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, 嗄bel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, 嗄bel takes a job in Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of 嗄bel Rosenberg, an out-of-work 嗄merican circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide, 嗄bel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city, 嗄bel takes a job in Veregus' clinic, where he discovers the horrific truth behind the work of the strangely beneficent professor and unlocks the chilling mystery that drove his brother to kill himself.
