Stefan Jarl

Born: 1941-03-18

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.


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They Call Us Misfits

as Narrator
Released: 1968-03-25

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of...

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Misfits to Yuppies

as uncredited
Released: 1993-04-02

Misfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, Det...

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A Respectable Life

as uncredited
Released: 1979-03-26

"A Respectable Life" - A decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss...

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The Subjection

as Himself
Released: 2010-04-23

Documentary in which director Stefan Jarl has a blood test performed on himself to show the...

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Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced

as Himself, interviewer
Released: 2003-06-27

A feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent...

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Victoria - en film om kärlek

as uncredited
Released: 2015-08-17

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'.

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I Am Curious, Film

as Self
Released: 1995-10-28

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

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Själen för fan

as uncredited
Released: 2023-05-12

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