Synopsis
The Serpent's Egg (1977) is Ingmar Bergman's bleak thriller, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Berlin, 1923. Inflation eats the mark by the hour, and American acrobat Abel Rosenberg is stranded — broke, out of work, and reeling after his brother's sudden suicide.
Abel and his brother's widow Manuela (Liv Ullmann) scrape by between cheap rooms and smoky cabarets. A job finally leads him into the St. Anna clinic, where he stumbles onto records of chemical and psychological experiments carried out on living people. David Carradine plays a man coming apart from fear and drink; Gert Fröbe is the weary inspector trailing a string of odd deaths that keep circling back to him.
This is the only English-language feature Bergman ever made, shot in Munich during his self-imposed exile from Sweden. The title points to the idea that evil shows through its shell long before it hatches, like a snake curled inside the egg — Nazism is still a decade off, yet his Weimar is already rotten through. Slow, airless and grim, it rewards anyone who wants Bergman at his darkest instead of an easy night in. Stream The Serpent's Egg (1977) online on iFILM.
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