Stefan Jarl
Director
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.
Filmography
They Call Us Misfits
as Narrator 1968
A Respectable Life
1979
Misfits to Yuppies
1993
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
as Himself, interviewer 2003
I Am Curious, Film
as Self 1995
The Subjection
as Himself 2010
Året var 1968
as Self (archive footage) 2018
Själen för fan
2023
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
as Self 2004
Victoria - en film om kärlek
2015
En film om Modstrilogin
TBA