Stefan Jarl
Filmography

Stefan Jarl

DirectorBorn Mar 18, 1941Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden39 titles

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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Man on the Roof
Man on the Roof
1976 · 7.1
Production Manager, Assistant Director
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
1985 · 6.5
Director
Before Winter Comes
Before Winter Comes
2018 · 3.8
Writer, Director
Kyrie
Kyrie
1965
Supervising Producer
The Magic Circle
The Magic Circle
1970 · 6.5
Producer, Writer
A Respectable Life
A Respectable Life
1979 · 6.9
Actor, Sound Recordist
Life at Any Cost
Life at Any Cost
1998 · 6.7
Director
Misfits to Yuppies
Misfits to Yuppies
1993 · 6.1
Actor, Director
They Call Us Misfits
They Call Us Misfits
1968 · 6.7
Narrator, Sound
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
1972 · 5.8
Producer