
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 | 


