Career
Ingrid von Rosen died of stomach cancer in 1995, aged 65. 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.
He also had an affair with actress Liv Ullmann. Ingmar Bergman did not tell Maria he was her father until she was 22, he writes in the biography.
Before publishing the book in 2004, he never publicly revealed that he was Maria"s father. 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". Maria von Rosen and Ingmar Bergman, Tre dagböcker, Stockholm: Norstedt, 2004.