Stefan Jarl
Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Editor
March 18, 1941 (85 years)
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
Filmography
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| 2002 | The Bricklayer · as Screenplay |
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| 1994 | Land of the Lapps · as Screenplay |
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| 1987 | Threat · as Screenplay |
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| 1968 | They Call Us Misfits · as Narrator |
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| 2025 | Being Bo Widerberg · as Self (voice) |
| 2024 | Själen för fan · as Self - Speakerröst |
| 2021 | Brevfilmen · as Self - Speakerröst |
| 2018 | Året var 1968 · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2010 | The Subjection · as Himself |
| 2003 | Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced · as Himself, Interviewer |
| 2002 | The Bricklayer · as Self |
| 1995 | I Am Curious, Film · as Self |
| 1995 | The Century of Cinema · as Self |
| 2021 | Brevfilmen · as Co-Editor |
| 2021 | Brevfilmen · as Created By |
| 2018 | Innan vintern kommer · as Art Director |
| 2016 | Too Big for the World · as Assistant Producer |
| 2013 | Decency · as Co-Director Of Photography |
| 2013 | Decency · as Co-Editor |
| 2013 | Decency · as Written By |
| 2010 | The Subjection · as Co-Director Of Photography |
| 2010 | The Subjection · as Co-Editor |
| 2010 | The Subjection · as Written By |
| 2002 | The Bricklayer · as Co-Editor |
| 1998 | Liv till varje pris · as Co-Editor |
| 1979 | A Respectable Life · as Sound Recordist |
| 1977 | Skogsbrand · as Supervising Producer |
| 1976 | Man on the Roof · as Assistant Director |
| 1976 | Man on the Roof · as Production Manager |
| 1968 | They Call Us Misfits · as Sound |