Person
Stefan Jarl
Directing · Born 1941-03-18 · Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
Biography
Stefan Jarl is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. Together with Jan Lindqvist he made the Mods Trilogy, three films which follow a group of alienated people in Stockholm from the 1960s to the 1990s, They Call Us Misfits (1968), A Respectable Life (1979) and The Social Heritage (1993). A Respectable Life won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director. Jarl also wrote and directed Jag är din krigare (1997), and directed Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003), The Girl From Auschwitz (2005), and Submission (2010), a documentary about the "chemical burden" of synthetics and plastics carried by people born after World War II. At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award.
Known for
The Guldbagge Awards
Self - Creative Achievement winner
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
Director
The Magic Circle
Writer
Man on the Roof
Assistant Director
A Respectable Life
1979
Memento Mori
Director
Before Winter Comes
Director
Being Bo Widerberg
Self (voice)
Misfits to Yuppies
1993
They Call Us Misfits
Narrator
Filmography
- 2026Ursäkta migDirector
- 2025Being Bo WiderbergSelf (voice)
- 2024Själen för fanSelf - Speakerröst
- 2024ShardsEditor
- 2021BrevfilmenDirector
- 2018Before Winter ComesDirector
- 2018Året var 1968Self (archive footage)
- 2015Victoria - en film om kärlek
- 2014KoltrastenDirector
- 2013DecencyDirector
- 2010The SubjectionHimself
- 2006EpilogDirector
- 2005The Girl from AuschwitzDirector
- 2004With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the RoofSelf
- 2004Paradise LostDirector
- 2003Om Stefan JarlSelf
- 2003Terrorists: The Kids They SentencedHimself, interviewer
- 2002MurarenDirector
- 2001Gästgivargår'nDirector
- 2000Beauty Will Save the WorldDirector
- 2000En film om Arne SucksdorffDirector
- 2000De hemlösaDirector
- 1998Life at Any CostDirector
- 1997Nature's WarriorDirector
- 1995I Am Curious, FilmSelf
- 1994Samernas landScreenplay
- 1993Misfits to Yuppies
- 1991Jåvna, renskötare år 2000Director
- 1990Good PeopleProducer
- 1989Time Has No NameWriter
- 1987The ThreatScreenplay
- 1985The Soul Is Greater Than the WorldDirector
- 1983Nature's RevengeDirector
- 1982The PainterProducer
- 1981The Guldbagge AwardsSelf - Creative Achievement winner
- 1980Memento MoriDirector
- 1979A Respectable Life
- 1976Man on the RoofAssistant Director
- 1976We Have Our Own Song - The Music MovieDirector
- 1975UngkarlshotelletProducer
- 1974Transform SwedenDirector
- 1972Ture Sventon - PrivatdetektivProducer
- 1970The Magic CircleWriter
- 1968They Call Us MisfitsNarrator
- 1968U-barnProducer
- 1967The Truth About the New Anna SusannaProduction Manager
- 1966SnutarnaDirector
- 1965KyrieSupervising Producer
- —En film om Modstrilogin
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