Stefan Jarl

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.

Stefan Jarl is known for work in directing across film and television. New Release currently presents 25 verified screen credits connected to this profile. Selected work includes I Am Curious, Film (1995), The Guldbagge Awards (1981), Man on the Roof (1976), Being Bo Widerberg (2025), Epilog (2006), Memento Mori (1980), The Soul Is Greater Than the World (1985), Nature's Warrior (1997). The recorded credits span 1965 to 2025, including 24 movies and 1 TV show. The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles. This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.