Stefan Jarl
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.
Known For
Prominent works featuring Stefan Jarl
Man on the Roof
They Call Us Misfits
The Guldbagge Awards
A Respectable Life
Misfits to Yuppies
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
Decency
I Am Curious, Film
Nature's Revenge
Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (77 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ursäkta mig | Director | Movie | 2026 | |
 | Being Bo Widerberg | Self (voice) | Movie | 2025 |
 | Själen för fan | Self - Speakerröst | Movie | 2024 |
| Själen för fan | Director | Movie | 2024 |
 | Shards | Editor | Movie | 2024 |
 | Brevfilmen | Director | Movie | 2021 |
 | Before Winter Comes | Writer | Movie | 2018 |
| Before Winter Comes | Director | Movie | 2018 |
 | Året var 1968 | Self (archive footage) | Movie | 2018 |
 | Victoria - en film om kärlek | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2015 |
| Koltrasten | Director | Movie | 2014 | |
 | Decency | Director | Movie | 2013 |
 | The Subjection | Himself | Movie | 2010 |
| The Subjection | Producer | Movie | 2010 |
| The Subjection | Director | Movie | 2010 |
 | Epilog | Director | Movie | 2006 |
 | The Girl from Auschwitz | Director | Movie | 2005 |
 | With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof | Self | Movie | 2004 |
| Paradise Lost | Director | Movie | 2004 | |
| Om Stefan Jarl | Self | Movie | 2003 | |
 | Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced | Himself, interviewer | Movie | 2003 |
| Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced | Director | Movie | 2003 |
| Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced | Writer | Movie | 2003 |
| Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced | Editor | Movie | 2003 |
 | Muraren | Director | Movie | 2002 |
| Gästgivargår'n | Director | Movie | 2001 | |
 | Beauty Will Save the World | Director | Movie | 2000 |
| En film om Arne Sucksdorff | Director | Movie | 2000 | |
| De hemlösa | Director | Movie | 2000 | |
 | Life at Any Cost | Director | Movie | 1998 |
 | Nature's Warrior | Writer | Movie | 1997 |
| Nature's Warrior | Director | Movie | 1997 |
 | I Am Curious, Film | Self | Movie | 1995 |
 | Samernas land | Director | Movie | 1994 |
| Samernas land | Screenplay | Movie | 1994 |
 | Misfits to Yuppies | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1993 |
| Misfits to Yuppies | Director | Movie | 1993 |
| Misfits to Yuppies | Writer | Movie | 1993 |
| Misfits to Yuppies | Producer | Movie | 1993 |
 | Jåvna, renskötare år 2000 | Director | Movie | 1991 |
 | Good People | Producer | Movie | 1990 |
| Good People | Director | Movie | 1990 |
| Good People | Writer | Movie | 1990 |
 | Time Has No Name | Director | Movie | 1989 |
| Time Has No Name | Writer | Movie | 1989 |
 | The Threat | Director | Movie | 1987 |
| The Threat | Screenplay | Movie | 1987 |
 | The Soul Is Greater Than the World | Director | Movie | 1985 |
 | Nature's Revenge | Director | Movie | 1983 |
 | The Painter | Producer | Movie | 1982 |
 | The Guldbagge Awards | Self - Creative Achievement winner | TV Series | 1981 |
| Memento Mori | Director | Movie | 1980 | |
| Memento Mori | Editor | Movie | 1980 | |
| Memento Mori | Sound | Movie | 1980 | |
 | A Respectable Life | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1979 |
| A Respectable Life | Sound Recordist | Movie | 1979 |
| A Respectable Life | Producer | Movie | 1979 |
| A Respectable Life | Director | Movie | 1979 |
| A Respectable Life | Writer | Movie | 1979 |
 | Man on the Roof | Production Manager | Movie | 1976 |
| Man on the Roof | Assistant Director | Movie | 1976 |
 | We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie | Director | Movie | 1976 |
 | Ungkarlshotellet | Producer | Movie | 1975 |
 | Transform Sweden | Director | Movie | 1974 |
 | Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv | Producer | Movie | 1972 |
 | The Magic Circle | Producer | Movie | 1970 |
| The Magic Circle | Writer | Movie | 1970 |
 | They Call Us Misfits | Narrator | Movie | 1968 |
| They Call Us Misfits | Sound | Movie | 1968 |
| They Call Us Misfits | Editor | Movie | 1968 |
| They Call Us Misfits | Director | Movie | 1968 |
| They Call Us Misfits | Writer | Movie | 1968 |
 | U-barn | Producer | Movie | 1968 |
| The Truth About the New Anna Susanna | Production Manager | Movie | 1967 | |
| Snutarna | Director | Movie | 1966 | |
 | Kyrie | Supervising Producer | Movie | 1965 |
 | En film om Modstrilogin | Self / Appearance | Movie | — |