
Known for
Directing
Born
March 18, 1941 (age 85)
Birthplace
Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
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...
TBA
2026
Director
2025
as Self (voice)
2024
as Self - Speakerröst, Director
2024
Editor
2021
Director
2018
Director, Writer
2018
as Self (archive footage)
2015
2014
Director
2013
Director
2010
as Himself, Producer, Director
2006
Director
2005
Director
2004
2004
Director
2003
as Self
2003
as Himself, interviewer, Director, Editor, Writer
2002
Director
2001
Director
2000
Director
2000
Director
2000
Director
1998
Director
1997
Director, Writer