Stefan Jarl
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.
They Call Us Misfits
as NarratorA documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of...
Movie pageTerrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
as Himself, interviewerA feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent...
Movie pageI Am Curious, Film
as SelfThe Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
Movie pageA Respectable Life
as uncredited"A Respectable Life" - A decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss...
Movie pageMisfits to Yuppies
as uncreditedMisfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, Det...
Movie pageVictoria - en film om kärlek
as uncreditedDocumentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'.
Movie pageThe Subjection
as HimselfDocumentary in which director Stefan Jarl has a blood test performed on himself to show the...
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