Stefan Jarl
| Stefan Jarl | |
|---|---|
 Stefan Jarl in 2013. | |
| Born |
18 March 1941 Skara, Sweden |
| Nationality | Swedish |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1965-present |
| Spouse(s) | Anette Lykke Lundberg |
Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) is a Swedish film director best known for his documentaries. 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 Det sociala arvet (1993). A Respectable Life won the 1979 Guldbagge Awards for Best Film and Best Director.[1] 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.[2]
Selected filmography
- They Call Us Misfits (Dom kallar oss mods)
- A Respectable Life (Ett anständigt liv, 1979)
- Det sociala arvet (1993)
- Jag är din krigare (1997)
- Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (Terrorister - en film om dom dömda, 2003)
- Submission (Underkastelsen, 2010)
References
- ↑ "Ett anständigt liv (1979): Awards". Swedish Film Database. Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
- ↑ "Stefan Jarl". Swedish Film Institute. 16 March 2014.
External links
- Stefan Jarl at the Internet Movie Database
- Stefan Jarl at the Swedish Film Database
- Stefan Jarl's homepage (Swedish)/(English)
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