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.
Directed
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They Call Us Misfits (1968) — Director
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A Respectable Life (1979) — Director
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Misfits to Yuppies (1993) — Director
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Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003) — Director
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The Soul Is Greater Than the World (1985) — Director
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Nature's Revenge (1983) — Director
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Muraren (2002) — Director
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Decency (2013) — Director
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Nature's Warrior (1997) — Director
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Before Winter Comes (2018) — Director
- De hemlösa (2000) — Director
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Life at Any Cost (1998) — Director
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The Subjection (2010) — Director
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Beauty Will Save the World (2000) — Director
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Time Has No Name (1989) — Director
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The Threat (1987) — Director
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Good People (1990) — Director
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Jåvna, renskötare år 2000 (1991) — Director
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Samernas land (1994) — Director
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Transform Sweden (1974) — Director
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The Girl from Auschwitz (2005) — Director
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We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie (1976) — Director
- Koltrasten (2014) — Director
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Brevfilmen (2021) — Director
- Paradise Lost (2004) — Director
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Epilog (2006) — Director
- Gästgivargår'n (2001) — Director
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Själen för fan (2024) — Director
- Snutarna (1966) — Director
- En film om Arne Sucksdorff (2000) — Director
- Ursäkta mig (2026) — Director
- Memento Mori (1980) — Director
Also appeared in
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They Call Us Misfits (1968) — Narrator
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A Respectable Life (1979)
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Misfits to Yuppies (1993)
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Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003) — Himself, interviewer
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I Am Curious, Film (1995) — Self
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The Subjection (2010) — Himself
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Being Bo Widerberg (2025) — Self (voice)
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The Guldbagge Awards (1981) — Self - Creative Achievement winner
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Året var 1968 (2018) — Self (archive footage)
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Själen för fan (2024) — Self - Speakerröst
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With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof (2004) — Self
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Victoria - en film om kärlek (2015)
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En film om Modstrilogin
- Om Stefan Jarl (2003) — Self