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The touch originally released as a motion picture 1971.

The Serpent's egg originally released as a motion picture 1977.

Widescreen.

The touch: director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Siv Lundgren ; music, Jan Johansson.

Serpent's egg: director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; music, Rolf Wilhelm ; editor, Petra von Oelffen.

In Swedish and English with optional English subtitles.

The Touch: "With his first English-language film, a critical and box-office disaster, Ingmar Bergman delivered a compelling portrait of conflicting desires. In The Touch, a chance encounter between seemingly contented housewife Karin (Bibi Andersson) and David (Elliott Gould), an intense American archaeologist scarred by his family's past, leads to the initiation of a torrid and tempestuous affair, one that eventually threatens the stability of Karin's marriage to a respected local surgeon (Max von Sydow). Upon its release, the filmmaker declared this emotionally complex and sensitively performed film to be his first real love story"--from Criterion's website.

Serpent's egg: "One rainy night in Weimar Berlin, Jewish American circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) discovers that his brother Max, his trapeze-act partner, has killed himself. What follows is one of Bergman's darkest and most fearful visions, as the drowned-in-drink Abel and Max's ex-wife, cabaret singer Manuela (Liv Ullmann), feel increasingly unwelcome in a menacing and destitute city, eyed by the police as well as a scientist with diabolical intentions. The director's sole big-budget Hollywood production, for which he created a surreal and atmospheric Berlin on a Munich soundstage, The Serpent's Egg conjures a Kafkaesque nightmare about the decaying society that gave rise to the horrors of Nazism"--From Criterion's website.

Beröringen

Serpent's egg.

Ingmar Bergman's cinema ; 21

The criterion collection

The touch: director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; editor, Siv Lundgren ; music, Jan Johansson.

Serpent's egg: director of photography, Sven Nykvist ; music, Rolf Wilhelm ; editor, Petra von Oelffen.

The touch: Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow, Sheila Reid.

Serpent's egg: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Froebe, Heinz Bennent.

Blu-ray; Widescreen presentation.

Blu-ray player required to view this disc.

The Touch (1971)

The Serpent's Egg (1977).

Adultery > Drama.

Man-woman relationships > Drama.

Suicide > Drama.

Brothers > Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Drama.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Janus Films.

ABC Pictures Corp.

Cinematograph (Firm)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.