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The Serpent's Egg
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to oppressive historical atmospheres, psychological deterioration, and bleak visions of a society sliding toward catastrophe.
- Tone
- bleak, eerie, melancholic
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- social collapse, grief, alienation, despair, authoritarianism
- Setting
- interwar 1920s, decaying urban city and circus milieu