Swedish writer and journalist Thomas Sjöberg wrote an unusual biography of Ingmar Bergman. The focus is on his family and personal life, childhood, relationships with parents, love. The author talks in detail about all his happy and unsuccessful marriages, about relationships with women, among whom were world film stars Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullman.

Having gained access to the richest family archive, where a unique collection of letters and documents, the author included in the book fragments of the diaries of the director’s mother, memories of people who knew him closely, as well as his own letters to his parents, including those sent in the summer of 1936 from Nazi Germany, which he ended with the greeting “Heil Hitler!” This detailed biography, where many circumstances are revealed for the first time, reads like a gripping novel.