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Stefan Jarl profile
Actor

Stefan Jarl

Directing

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11

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Movies: 39Series: 1Crew credits: 35

TMDB ID: 224419

IMDb ID: nm0418724

Known for: Directing

Born: March 18, 1941

Age: 84

Place of birth: Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1965 - 2024

Years active: 60

Average TMDB rating: 6.94

Wikidata: Q359274

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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.

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