Ingmar Bergman switched at birth

Under the sober headline of "new light cast on Bergman’s origins," Dagens Nyheterreveals a piece of news that will send a shockwave through the world of Swedish culture. According to DNA analysis, "in all likelihood Ingmar Bergman was not the biological son of his mother, Karin Bergman," reports the daily, which reports that "the news adds support to a hypothesis that Bergman, who was the child of another woman, was switched at birth."

In response to the book which announced the theory about the film director who died in 2007, his niece, Veronica Ralston, ordered the DNA tests whose results have now been disclosed. The book claimed that Karin Bergman, was ill when she had a child who may not have survived. Bergman’s father allegedly switched this child with a baby that he had with another woman. "If this information is true, it will cast a new light on Bergman’s filmography," in which his mother plays a central role, points out aDagens Nyheter columnist, who also wonders "how writer Henning Mankell will treat the disclosure in the TV series he is writing about Bergman’s life."