Erik Henrik Fredrik Bergman (22 October 1886 – 26 April 1970) was a

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parish minister of the Lutheran Church and the father of diplomat Dag Bergman, novelist

Margareta Bergman Karin Ann Margareta Bergman (22 August 1922 – 27 September 2006) was a Swedish novelist. She had an unhappy childhood in a strict Lutheran family, something depicted in her brother Ingmar Bergman's semi-autobiographical film '' Fanny och Alexan ...

, and film director Ingmar Bergman. Erik Bergman was born at

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in 1886. He was ordained to the Swedish State Church in

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in 1912 and served as a priest in

Valbo Valbo is a locality situated in Gävle Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 7,065 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated south-west of Gävle itself and could be considered a suburb of the city. Valbo is known for the large shopping mall Val ...

as of 1913. In 1918 he was relocated to Stockholm and served as a minister at

Hedvig Eleonora Church Hedvig Eleonora Church ( sv, Hedvig Eleonora kyrka) is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located at Östermalm and belongs to the Church of Sweden and is parish church for Hedvig Eleonora Parish in the Diocese of Stockholm. The chu ...

, where he became the parish

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Hedvig Eleonora Parish Hedvig Eleonora Parish ( sv, Hedvig Eleonora församling) is a parish in Östermalm's church district (''kontrakt'') in the Diocese of Stockholm, Sweden. The parish is located in Stockholm Municipality in Stockholm County. The parish forms its own ...

in 1934. In that capacity he also served as a royal chaplain to the court of King Gustav V of Sweden. He was married to nurse Karin Åkerblom, his

second cousin Most generally, in the lineal kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of familial relationship in which two relatives are two or more familial generations away from their most recent common ancestor. Commonly, ...

.Rochelle Wright, "The Imagined Past in Ingmar Bergman's ''The Best Intentions''", ''Ingmar Bergman: An Artist's Journey'', 2011, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. Bergman wrote an autobiography for his daughter Margareta in 1941. Ingmar Bergman later consulted it to write the semi-biographical script about his parents' complex courtship in ''

The Best Intentions ''The Best Intentions'' ( sv, Den goda viljan) is a 1992 Swedish drama film directed by Bille August and written by Ingmar Bergman. It is semi-autobiographical, telling the story of the complex relationship between Bergman's parents, Erik Bergm ...

'' (1992), a story that includes the unhappy early years of their marriage up to the point where the mother is pregnant with her second son, effectively Ingmar himself. Erik Bergman was a rather strict father and his complex relationship with his son is a somber theme in Ingmar Bergman films, such as ''

Fanny and Alexander ''Fanny and Alexander'' ( sv, Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 period drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The plot focuses on two siblings and their large family in Uppsala, Sweden during the first decade of the twentieth century. ...

''. He was further portrayed in cinema with '' Sunday's Children'', directed by

Daniel Bergman Daniel Sebastian Bergman (; born 7 September 1962) is a Swedish film director. He is the son of Ingmar Bergman and Käbi Laretei. As a child, Bergman appeared in a 1967 Swedish program called ''Stimulantia'', which consisted of eight episodes, ...

and released in 1992. Whereas Ingmar's recollections of Erik Bergman are damning in ''Fanny and Alexander'', his study of his father is "far more forgiving" in ''The Best Intentions'' and ''Sunday's Children''. Erik Bergman died in Stockholm in 1970.

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