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.

Man on the Roof

(83 Votes)

7.1

When an inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by Detective Martin Beck ...

Relase Date : 1 Oct, 1976

Thriller

Action

Crime

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They Call Us Misfits

(27 Votes)

6.704

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outski...

Relase Date : 25 Mar, 1968

Documentary

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A Respectable Life

(22 Votes)

6.886

A decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss mods, has disapp...

Relase Date : 26 Mar, 1979

Documentary

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Misfits to Yuppies

(18 Votes)

6.056

Misfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, D...

Relase Date : 2 Apr, 1993

Documentary

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Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced

(12 Votes)

6.083

A feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-glob...

Relase Date : 27 Jun, 2003

Documentary

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