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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden

Homepage: http://www.stefanjarl.se/

Movie Involvements: 55

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Man on the Roof
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7

Man on the Roof

(1976) Production Manager
A Respectable Life
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7

A Respectable Life

(1979) Writer
They Call Us Misfits
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7

They Call Us Misfits

(1968) Writer
Nature's Warrior
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5

Nature's Warrior

(1997) Writer
Innan vintern kommer
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4

Innan vintern kommer

(2018) Writer
Misfits to Yuppies
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6

Misfits to Yuppies

(1993) Writer
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
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6
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
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5

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1979 Sound Recordist
1968 Sound
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