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Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) 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.[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.

Stefan Jarl
Stefan Jarl in 2013.
Born	(1941-03-18) 18 March 1941 (age 81) Skara, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1965-present
Spouse(s)	Anette Lykke Lundberg

At the 25th Guldbagge Awards in 1990 he won the Creative Achievement award[2] and in 2017 Jarl received the Lenin Award.[3]

Selected filmography

• They Call Us Misfits (Dom kallar oss mods) codirector Jan Lindqvist
• 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

External links

• Stefan Jarl at IMDb
• Stefan Jarl at the Swedish Film Database
• Stefan Jarl's homepage (in Swedish and English)

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