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Stefan Jarl

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer, Editor, Additional CreditsBorn March 18, 1941 (84 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

  • Man on the Roof
  • They Call Us Misfits
  • A Respectable Life
  • Misfits to Yuppies
  • Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
  • Nature's Warrior
  • The Subjection
  • Innan vintern kommer
  • Själen är större än världen
  • The Bricklayer
  • Liv till varje pris
  • Decency
  • Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
  • Nature's Revenge
  • Goda människor
  • Time Has No Name
  • Threat
  • Den magiska cirkeln
  • Land of the Lapps
  • Själen för fan
  • Too Big for the World
  • Ungkarlshotellet
  • Jåvna, Reindeer Herdsman in the Year 2000
  • Musikfilmen

Stefan Jarl Filmography

2025
2021
Brevfilmen · as Self - Speakerröst
2010
The Subjection · as Himself
2006
Efter tio (TV Series) · as Self
2003
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced · as Himself, Interviewer
2002
The Bricklayer · as Self
1995
1995
The Century of Cinema (TV Series) · as Self

2021
Brevfilmen · as Co-Director Of Photography
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

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