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Ingmar Bergmans The Serpents Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germanys defeat in World War I. When his brother commits suicide Abel seeks refuge in the apartment of an old acquaintance Professor Veregus. Desperate to make ends meet in the war-ravaged city Abel 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.