Stefan Jarl
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- March 18, 1941, Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
- Movies
- 49
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.
Upcoming Stefan Jarl Movies
En film om Modstrilogin
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2025 | Being Bo Widerberg | Self (voice) |
| 2024 | Själen för fan | Self - Speakerröst |
| 2018 | Året var 1968 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Victoria - en film om kärlek | |
| 2010 | The Subjection | Himself |
| 2004 | With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof | Self |
| 2003 | Om Stefan Jarl | Self |
| 2003 | Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced | Himself, interviewer |
| 1995 | I Am Curious, Film | Self |
| 1993 | Misfits to Yuppies | |
| 1979 | A Respectable Life | |
| 1968 | They Call Us Misfits | Narrator |
Directing, Writing & Producing
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