The Serpent’s Egg. Ingmar Bergman, 1977.
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Edition screened: Included in Criterion Blu-ray set Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema, released 2018. English language. Runtime approximately 120 minutes.
Summary: Butchering of a horse.
Details:
1) Brief narration of torturing a cat to death, 23:57-24:17.
2) At 1:29:30 through a:29:57 David Carradine comes across two men who are slicing flank meat off of a carriage horse that apparently has just died (or has been killed for food) on the cobblestone street. The camera dwells a bit on the horse’s head and the blood that spreads from it. At 1:38:30-1:38:41 we briefly return to the now fleshless and frost-covered carcass. The context of this food-gathering is the poverty and oppression of Berlin between the wars.
The Serpent’s Egg and The Touch share disc #21 of 30 in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema (part of ‘Centerpiece 2’). Greg Carson’s Away from Home, a short 2004 interview program about The Serpent’s Egg, also is included on the disc.
