Ingrid von Rosen
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Ingrid von Rosen was married to Swedish
Sweden
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 film director Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...

. Born Ingrid Karlebo in Stockholm
Stockholm
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 in 1930, she was married to the Swedish count Jan-Carl von Rosen in 1953. In 1971 she married Ingmar Bergman. Ingrid von Rosen died of stomach cancer in 1995, aged 65.

Her diary is a part of the biographical work Tre dagböcker (literally: Three diaries) published in 2004 by Ingmar Bergman and their daughter Maria von Rosen, author. The biography consists of their respective diary entries written around the time Ingrid von Rosen died, after a 24-year marriage to Bergman. In the foreword to the book, Bergman writes that he met Ingrid von Rosen in 1957 and had an on-and-off affair with her until 1969. During that period, Bergman went through two marriages, with Gun Grut and Käbi Laretei
Käbi Laretei
Käbi Alma Laretei is an Estonian-born Swedish concert pianist.Her father was a diplomat in the service of the Republic of Estonia; when the Soviet Union invaded the country he and his family fled to Sweden. Laretei has had a long and distinguished career as a pianist and in the 1960s...

. He also had an affair with actress Liv Ullmann
Liv Ullmann
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.

Maria von Rosen was born in 1959, the same year Bergman divorced Grut and married Laretei. Ingmar Bergman did not tell Maria he was her father until she was 22, he writes in the biography. When he married Ingrid von Rosen in 1971, he had been married four times, and had eight other children, including a daughter with Liv Ullmann. Before publishing the book in 2004, he never publicly revealed that he was Maria's father.

On 20 August 2007, her four children requested to have her grave and remains moved from the original site (Roslagsbro) to share a plot with her husband on Fårö
Fårö
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. Applications to move graves are rare in Sweden, with fewer than ten applications granted each year. The request was granted on 24 October 2007 and the spousal couple's graves were brought together by the end of May 2008. The top line of the tombstone inscription reads "Ingrid Bergman", rather than "Ingrid von Rosen Bergman". Actress Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...

 is buried elsewhere.

Biography

  • Maria von Rosen and Ingmar Bergman, Tre dagböcker, Stockholm: Norstedt, 2004. ISBN 91-1-301396-3
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