Stefan Jarl
Born: 1941-03-18 in Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
Known For: Directing
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
2024
- Shards ... (Editor)
- The Soul - Dammit ... (Director)
2023
2021
- Brevfilmen ... (Director)
2018
- Before Winter Comes ... (Director)
- Året var 1968 as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Koltrasten ... (Director)
2013
- Decency ... (Director)
2010
- The Subjection as Himself
2006
- Epilog ... (Director)
2005
- The Girl from Auschwitz ... (Director)
2004
- Paradise Lost ... (Director)
- With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof as Self
2003
- Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced as Himself, interviewer
2002
- Muraren ... (Director)
2001
- Gästgivargår'n ... (Director)
2000
- Beauty Will Save the World ... (Director)
- De hemlösa ... (Director)
- En film om Arne Sucksdorff ... (Director)
1998
- Life at Any Cost ... (Director)
1997
- Nature's Warrior ... (Director)
1995
- I Am Curious, Film as Self
1994
- Samernas land ... (Screenplay)
1993
1991
- Jåvna, renskötare år 2000 ... (Director)
1990
- Good People ... (Producer)
1989
- Time Has No Name ... (Writer)
1987
- The Threat ... (Screenplay)
1985
- The Soul Is Greater Than the World ... (Director)
1983
- Nature's Revenge ... (Director)
1981
- The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Creative Achievement winner
1979
1976
- Man on the Roof ... (Assistant Director)
- We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie ... (Director)
1975
- Ungkarlshotellet ... (Producer)
1974
- Transform Sweden ... (Director)
1972
- Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv ... (Producer)
1970
- The Magic Circle ... (Writer)
1968
- U-barn ... (Producer)
- They Call Us Misfits as Narrator
1967
- The Truth About the New Anna Susanna ... (Production Manager)
1966
- Snutarna ... (Director)
1965
- Kyrie ... (Supervising Producer)