Stefan Jarl
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
DirectingBirthday
March 18, 1941Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
45Place of birth
Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/kUOIY0n19wK9lTxnwkDDUEBCJMc.jpg)
Cast credits
Crew credits
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A Respectable Life
Director, Writer, Sound Recordist, Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4GY7GzOrprw4T0NTNvhAxoGaYze.jpg)
Misfits to Yuppies
Director, Writer, Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/430znVHk45xX5ze9w6FEPfhw01a.jpg)
They Call Us Misfits
Director, Writer, Sound, Editor![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/u6aZK0OsPoxq6fqDDtAjQDX4Pnh.jpg)
The Subjection
Producer, Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/p7QFCBPMhGw9Hda3iryCWfbYnki.jpg)
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nl7W7NEbVrhm2MMeTqiXWUSkeit.jpg)
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
Director, Writer, Editor![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/i3QTzS9I9gblCsSWswu7BiC6Xd.jpg)
Nature's Warrior
Director, Writer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xll2cPqXO1YVOjFRQAiWeAfyfdR.jpg)
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/rJ1jq5Zy65A8CZ2078vBLninZUe.jpg)
Decency
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/5qFlUGPLD1BQEuNc3oSOI6ZC8WH.jpg)
Man on the Roof
Assistant Director, Production Manager![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xCz4EZtyH3LwfLcxupp7NA3DJKv.jpg)
Nature's Revenge
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/iXwRyVRE9VZg4zUlt8qOBu4gHfG.jpg)
The Girl from Auschwitz
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/dzYzjRoRDksnkHP2dZw6wPbslQt.jpg)
Beauty Will Save the World
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/cMq0QgCc5LPcjRkBvX5z07r0BLU.jpg)
Good People
Director, Writer, Producer![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/fyQjDkI5hG2XOKoHCMvrPB4fTEy.jpg)
Gästgivargår'n
Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/pi1zoV4SowtvaXfwdFWRKhnniBX.jpg)
Time Has No Name
Writer, Director![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/hBoL6u318yYIKIfJs6IVa1fnLdQ.jpg)
Before Winter Comes
Director, Writer