Directed credits
19
Established
Strong directing catalog.
Director
Stefan Jarl
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Directed movies: 19Directed series: 0All crew credits: 31
TMDB ID: 224419
IMDb ID: nm0418724
Known for: Directing
Born: March 18, 1941
Age: 85
Place of birth: Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1965 - 2025
Years active: 61
Average TMDB rating: 6.91
Wikidata: Q359274
Frequent jobs
Director (19)Producer (6)Editor (1)Production Manager (1)Sound (1)Sound Recordist (1)Supervising Producer (1)Writer (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.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Stefan Jarl.
Director
Själen för fan
2024 • Movie
Director
Brevfilmen
2021 • Movie
Director
Before Winter Comes
2018 • Movie
Director
Decency
2013 • Movie
Director
Epilog
2006 • Movie
Director
The Girl from Auschwitz
2005 • Movie
Director
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003 • Movie
Director
Beauty Will Save the World
2000 • Movie
Director
Life at Any Cost
1998 • Movie
Director
Nature's Warrior
1997 • Movie
Director
Samernas land
1994 • Movie
Director
Misfits to Yuppies
1993 • Movie
Director
Jåvna, renskötare år 2000
1991 • Movie
Director
Time Has No Name
1989 • Movie
Director
The Threat
1987 • Movie
Director
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
1985 • Movie
Director
Nature's Revenge
1983 • Movie
Director
We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie
1976 • Movie
Director
Transform Sweden
1974 • Movie
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Stefan Jarl.
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Stefan Jarl.
Director
The Soul Is Greater Than the World
1985 • Movie
Production Manager
Man on the Roof
1976 • Movie
Director
Transform Sweden
1974 • Movie
Writer
The Magic Circle
1970 • Movie
as Self (voice)
Being Bo Widerberg
2025 • Movie
Sound Recordist
A Respectable Life
1979 • Movie
as Self
I Am Curious, Film
1995 • Movie
Director
Before Winter Comes
2018 • Movie
Director
Misfits to Yuppies
1993 • Movie
Editor
Shards
2024 • Movie
Director
Samernas land
1994 • Movie
Director
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003 • Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Stefan Jarl.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Stefan Jarl.
Editor
Shards
2024 • Movie
Producer
The Subjection
2010 • Movie
Producer
Good People
1990 • Movie
Producer
The Painter
1982 • Movie
Sound Recordist
A Respectable Life
1979 • Movie
Production Manager
Man on the Roof
1976 • Movie
Producer
Ungkarlshotellet
1975 • Movie
Producer
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
1972 • Movie
Writer
The Magic Circle
1970 • Movie
Sound
They Call Us Misfits
1968 • Movie
Producer
U-barn
1968 • Movie
Supervising Producer
Kyrie
1965 • Movie
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Stefan Jarl.
as Self (voice)
Being Bo Widerberg
2025 • Movie
as Self - Speakerröst
Själen för fan
2024 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Året var 1968
2018 • Movie
Victoria - en film om kärlek
2015 • Movie
as Himself
The Subjection
2010 • Movie
as Self
With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof
2004 • Movie
as Himself, interviewer
Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced
2003 • Movie
as Self
I Am Curious, Film
1995 • Movie
Misfits to Yuppies
1993 • Movie
A Respectable Life
1979 • Movie
En film om Modstrilogin
Movie
as Narrator
They Call Us Misfits
1968 • Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Stefan Jarl.