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.
Directed Films
Själen för fan
Brevfilmen
Before Winter Comes
Decency
The Subjection
Epilog
The Girl from Auschwitz
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
Beauty Will Save the World
Life at Any Cost
Nature's Warrior
Samernas land
Misfits to Yuppies
Jåvna, renskötare år 2000
Good People
Time Has No Name
The Threat
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
Nature's Revenge
A Respectable Life
We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
Transform Sweden
They Call Us Misfits
Also Appeared In
Being Bo Widerberg
Själen för fan
Året var 1968
Victoria - en film om kärlek
The Subjection
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
I Am Curious, Film
Misfits to Yuppies
A Respectable Life
They Call Us Misfits
