Stefan Jarl
Directing
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
Directing33
Ursäkta mig
2026
Director
movieSjälen för fan
2024
Director
movieBrevfilmen
2021
Director
movieBefore Winter Comes
2018
Director
Koltrasten
2014
Director
movieDecency
2013
Director
movieThe Subjection
2010
Director
movieEpilog
2006
Director
movieThe Girl from Auschwitz
2005
Director
Muraren
2002
Director
De hemlösa
2000
Director
movieLife at Any Cost
1998
Director
movieNature's Warrior
1997
Director
movieSamernas land
1994
Director
movieMisfits to Yuppies
1993
Director
movieGood People
1990
Director
movieTime Has No Name
1989
Director
movieThe Threat
1987
Director
movieNature's Revenge
1983
Director
movieA Respectable Life
1979
Director
movieMan on the Roof
1976
Assistant Director
movieTransform Sweden
1974
Director
movieThey Call Us Misfits
1968
Director
Snutarna
1966
Director
Acting14
movieBeing Bo Widerberg
2025
Self (voice)
movieSjälen för fan
2024
Self - Speakerröst
movieÅret var 1968
2018
Self (archive footage)
movieThe Subjection
2010
Himself
movieTerrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003
Himself, interviewer
tvThe Guldbagge Awards
1981
Self - Creative Achievement winner
movieThey Call Us Misfits
1968
Narrator
Production12
movieThe Subjection
2010
Producer
movieMisfits to Yuppies
1993
Producer
movieGood People
1990
Producer
movieThe Painter
1982
Producer
movieA Respectable Life
1979
Producer
movieMan on the Roof
1976
Production Manager
movieUngkarlshotellet
1975
Producer
movieThe Magic Circle
1970
Producer
movieU-barn
1968
Producer
movieKyrie
1965
Supervising Producer
Writing11
Editing4
Sound3
movieA Respectable Life
1979
Sound Recordist