
Stefan Jarl
Known for Directing · 13 credits
- Born
- 1941-03-18 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
Biography
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

The Guldbagge Awards
1981
as Self - Creative Achievement winner

Året var 1968
2018
as Self (archive footage)

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004
as Self

Misfits to Yuppies
1993

I Am Curious, Film
1995
as Self

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003
as Himself, interviewer
TV Shows (1)
Movies (12)

Året var 1968
2018
as Self (archive footage)

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004
as Self

Misfits to Yuppies
1993

I Am Curious, Film
1995
as Self

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003
as Himself, interviewer

A Respectable Life
1979

They Call Us Misfits
1968
as Narrator

The Subjection
2010
as Himself

Victoria - en film om kärlek
2015
Om Stefan Jarl
2003
as Self

Själen för fan
2024
as Self - Speakerröst

En film om Modstrilogin
About 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 Submissio… With 13 credits spanning from 1968 to 2024, Stefan Jarl has appeared in 12 films and 1 TV show.
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Most Popular Stefan Jarl Movies
- Året var 1968 (2018) — as Self (archive footage)
- With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof (2004) — as Self
- Misfits to Yuppies (1993)
- I Am Curious, Film (1995) — as Self
- Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003) — as Himself, interviewer
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