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.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 43
Director 26
self 9
Producer 5
TV Shows 1
Writer 1
The Soul - Dammit (2024)
Shards (2024)
Själen för fan (2023)
Brevfilmen (2021)
Before Winter Comes (2018)
Victoria - en film om kärlek (2015)
Koltrasten (2014)
Decency (2013)
The Subjection (2010)
Epilog (2006)
Paradise Lost (2004)
Gästgivargår'n (2001)
De hemlösa (2000)
Life at Any Cost (1998)
Nature's Warrior (1997)
Samernas land (1994)
Misfits to Yuppies (1993)
Good People (1990)
Time Has No Name (1989)
The Threat (1987)
Nature's Revenge (1983)
The Painter (1982)
The Guldbagge Awards (1981)
A Respectable Life (1979)
Man on the Roof (1976)
Transform Sweden (1974)
They Call Us Misfits (1968)
U-barn (1968)
The Truth About the New Anna Susanna (1967)
Snutarna (1966)
Kyrie (1965)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1941-03-18 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceSkara, Sweden
CitizenshipsSweden
AwardsGuldbaggen för kreativa insatser, honorary doctor at Karlstad University, Lenin Award (Sweden), Guldbagge Award for Best Director, European Film Award for Best Documentary
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