Directing
Stefan Jarl
EN, SV cinema · 48 credits
Born
18 March 1941 (age 85)
Birthplace
Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
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
Filmography
Being Bo Widerberg
as Self (voice)
Själen för fan
as Self - Speakerröst, Director
Shards
Editor
Brevfilmen
Director
Året var 1968
as Self (archive footage)
Before Winter Comes
Writer, Director
Decency
Director
The Subjection
as Himself, Producer, Director
Epilog
Director
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
as Himself, interviewer, Director, Writer, Editor
Muraren
Director
Life at Any Cost
Director
Nature's Warrior
Writer, Director
Samernas land
Director, Screenplay
Misfits to Yuppies
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
Good People
Producer, Director, Writer
Time Has No Name
Director, Writer
The Threat
Director, Screenplay
Nature's Revenge
Director
The Painter
Producer
Memento Mori
1980
Memento Mori
Director, Editor, Sound
A Respectable Life
Actor, Sound Recordist, Producer, Director, Writer
Man on the Roof
Production Manager, Assistant Director
Ungkarlshotellet
Producer
Transform Sweden
Director
The Magic Circle
Producer, Writer
They Call Us Misfits
as Narrator, Sound, Editor, Director, Writer
U-barn
Producer
Kyrie
Supervising Producer