Stefan Jarl

Directing

Born: 1941-03-18
From: Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.1

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.

Awards & Nominations5 won · 1 nominated

🏆 Won

Lenin Award (Sweden)

2017
🏆 Won

honorary doctor at Karlstad University

2012
Nominated

European Film Award for Best Documentary

The Bricklayer

2002
🏆 Won

European Film Award for Best Documentary

The Social Contract

1993
🏆 Won

Guldbaggen för kreativa insatser

1990
🏆 Won

Guldbagge Award for Best Director

A Respectable Life

1979

Acting13 titles

Directing24 titles

Writing11 titles

Production11 titles

Sound2 titles

Editing3 titles