
Stefan Jarl
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"…
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The Guldbagge Awards
1981 · TV

The Soul Is Greater Than the World
1985 · Movie

Man on the Roof
1976 · Movie

Being Bo Widerberg
2025 · Movie

Kyrie
1965 · Movie

Shards
2024 · Movie

They Call Us Misfits
1968 · Movie

The Magic Circle
1970 · Movie
Memento Mori
1980 · Movie

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004 · Movie

Life at Any Cost
1998 · Movie

Before Winter Comes
2018 · Movie