Stefan Jarl
Known for: Directing
Born: March 18, 1941
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
48 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
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Ursäkta mig
2026
8.0
Being Bo Widerberg
2025
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Själen för fan
2024
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Shards
2024
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Brevfilmen
2021
3.8
Before Winter Comes
2018
5.0
Året var 1968
2018
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Victoria - en film om kärlek
20155.0
Koltrasten
2014
1.7
Decency
2013
5.7
The Subjection
2010
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Epilog
2006
7.0
The Girl from Auschwitz
2005
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004NR
Paradise Lost
2004NR
Om Stefan Jarl
2003
6.1
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003
6.2
Muraren
2002NR
Gästgivargår'n
2001
5.7
Beauty Will Save the World
2000NR
En film om Arne Sucksdorff
20006.6
De hemlösa
2000
6.7
Life at Any Cost
1998
5.4
Nature's Warrior
1997
4.2
I Am Curious, Film
1995
7.0
Samernas land
1994
6.1
Misfits to Yuppies
1993
8.0
Jåvna, renskötare år 2000
1991
5.0
Good People
1990
6.3
Time Has No Name
1989
8.5
The Threat
1987
6.5
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
1985
5.9
Nature's Revenge
1983
9.0
The Painter
1982
5.5
The Guldbagge Awards
1981NR
Memento Mori
1980
6.9
A Respectable Life
1979
7.1
Man on the Roof
1976
9.0
We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
1976
7.0
Ungkarlshotellet
1975
5.0
Transform Sweden
1974
5.8
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
1972
6.5
The Magic Circle
1970
6.7
They Call Us Misfits
1968
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U-barn
19687.0
The Truth About the New Anna Susanna
1967NR
Snutarna
1966
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Kyrie
1965
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En film om Modstrilogin
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