Stefan Jarl
Director · b. 1941 · 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 in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award.
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Movie8.0DocumentaryThe documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.
Movie4.2DocumentaryThe Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
Movie6.1DocumentaryMisfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, Det sociala arvet) that shows conditions for addicts in Stockholm and try to find out how social legacy have been transferred to their children from previous films.
Movie6.7DocumentaryA documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy.
Movie6.9DocumentaryA decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss mods, has disappeared. Kenta is an alcoholic and lives with his girlfriend Eva. Together they have a son, Patric. Kenta's mom is in jail for manslaughter and Kenta goes to Kronoberg to greet her. Heroin also comes to play and Stoffe is one of those who falls victim to it. He lives with his girlfriend Lena and their young son, Janne. Lena later throws Stoffe out their home when she gets enough of his abuse, and he is forced to live with his mother. Kenta calls Stoffe and decides to meet him, and he tries to persuade him to give up heroin, but the two have a falling out and they separate. This film features other users from the previous film, such as Jajje and Kenta Bergkvist. The film ends with the death of a prominent person in the trilogy.
Movie5.7DocumentaryDocumentary in which director Stefan Jarl has a blood test performed on himself to show the "chemical burden" of trace chemicals in the blood of all people born since World War II.
Movie6.1DocumentaryA feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-globalization protests in Gothenburg, Sweden and the alleged police misconduct during the protests.
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Om Stefan Jarl
2003
MovieDocumentaryThe spiritual has been surgically removed in our society. Money has become part of the people's soul. Two voices from the film Själen för fan, a reflection on how our society has become a slave under the power of money. The economy has been allowed to become the force that has resulted in an increasingly unequal society, a country for the very richest. Socrates' words that "The care of the soul is the most important task of life" are far gone.
Själen för fan
2024
MovieDocumentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'.