Stefan Jarl
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.
Acting (9 movies)
Directing (31 movies)
Brevfilmen
2021
The Threat
1987
Jåvna, renskötare år 2000
1991
Samernas land
1994
Misfits to Yuppies
1993
They Call Us Misfits
1968
A Respectable Life
1979
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
1985
Paradise Lost
2004
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003
Life at Any Cost
1998
Muraren
2002
Nature's Warrior
1997
Decency
2013
Transform Sweden
1974
Nature's Revenge
1983
Epilog
2006
The Girl from Auschwitz
2005
The Subjection
2010
Beauty Will Save the World
2000
Good People
1990
Gästgivargår'n
2001
Time Has No Name
1989
Själen för fan
2023
Before Winter Comes
2018
Snutarna
1966
We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
1976
Koltrasten
2014
De hemlösa
2000
The Soul - Dammit
2024
En film om Arne Sucksdorff
2000
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| U-barn | 1968 | Producer |
| They Call Us Misfits | 1968 | Writer |
| The Magic Circle | 1970 | Writer |
| The Magic Circle | 1970 | Producer |
| Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv | 1972 | Producer |
| Ungkarlshotellet | 1975 | Producer |
| A Respectable Life | 1979 | Producer |
| A Respectable Life | 1979 | Writer |
| The Threat | 1987 | Screenplay |
| Time Has No Name | 1989 | Writer |
| Good People | 1990 | Producer |
| Good People | 1990 | Writer |
| Misfits to Yuppies | 1993 | Writer |
| Misfits to Yuppies | 1993 | Producer |
| Samernas land | 1994 | Screenplay |
| Nature's Warrior | 1997 | Writer |
| Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced | 2003 | Writer |
| The Subjection | 2010 | Producer |
| Before Winter Comes | 2018 | Writer |