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The Serpent’s Way (1986) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 111 mins · Swedish
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- Directed by
- Bo Widerberg
- Starring
- Stellan Skarsgård, Melinda Kinnaman, Tomas von Brömssen, Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson, Stina Ekblad
A traveling salesman and his son settle a debt by repeatedly exploiting the women of a destitute family. Over the years, Janni watches his mother, sister, niece and wife subjected to sexual abuse, while the household swells with children fathered by the perpetrators. The relentless cycle leaves the family trapped in shame, forced to endure an ever‑growing lineage of the abusers’ offspring.
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