Stefan Jarl
Swedish documentary filmmaker and film director · Sweden · On the map · Directors · Born 1941 · age 85
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).
Stefan Jarl is read about 27 times a day, in 11 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 21 September 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Being Bo WiderbergFilm2017Lenin Award (Sweden)Award2015
Victoria - en film om kärlekFilm2013
DecencyFilm, Director2012Honorary Doctor at Karlstad UniversityAward2005
The Girl from AuschwitzFilm, Director2003Om Stefan JarlFilm1998
Life at Any CostFilm, Director1995
I Am Curious, FilmFilm1993European Film Award for Best DocumentaryAward1991
Jåvna, renskötare år 2000Film, Director1990Guldbaggen för kreativa insatserAward1989
Time Has No NameFilm, Director, Writer1983
Nature's RevengeFilm, Director1981
The Guldbagge AwardsSeries1980Memento MoriFilm, Director1979Guldbagge Award for Best DirectorAward1975
UngkarlshotelletFilm, Producer1972
Ture Sventon - PrivatdetektivFilm, Producer1966SnutarnaFilm, Director1941Born18 March 1941People around Stefan
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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.
