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Stefan Jarl

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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.

18-03-1941

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Skara, Skaraborgs län, Sweden

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Själen för fan

Själen för fan

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2023

Året var 1968

Året var 1968

1968 - the year of riots, fights and protests. And demonstrations: against the Vietnam War, against teenage fairs, against the Davis Cup and even against Christmas. It is also the year of the invasion of Prague, the very last student exam and the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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2018

Victoria - en film om kärlek

Victoria - en film om kärlek

Documentary about the making of Bo Widerberg's film 'Victoria'.
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2015

The Subjection

The Subjection

Documentary in which director Stefan Jarl has a blood test performed on himself to show the "chemical burden" of trace chemicals in the blood of all people born since World War II.
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2010

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof

With a View to Realism: The Making of Man on the Roof

A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man on the Roof, featuring extensive interviews with cast and crew
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2004

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced

Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced

A feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-globalization protests in Gothenburg, Sweden and the alleged police misconduct during the protests.
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2003

I Am Curious, Film

I Am Curious, Film

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries
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1995

Misfits to Yuppies

Misfits to Yuppies

Misfits to Yuppies is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods, Ett anständigt liv, Det sociala arvet) that shows conditions for addicts in Stockholm and try to find out how social legacy have been transferred to their children from previous films.
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1993

A Respectable Life

A Respectable Life

"A Respectable Life" - A decade has gone by and the spirit of the preceding film, Dom kallar oss mods, has disappeared. Kenta is an alcoholic and lives with his girlfriend Eva. Together they have a son, Patric. Kenta's mom is in jail for manslaughter and Kenta goes to Kronoberg to greet her. Heroin also comes to play and Stoffe is one of those who falls victim to it. He lives with his girlfriend Lena and their young son, Janne. Lena later throws Stoffe out their home when she gets enough of his abuse, and he is forced to live with his mother. Kenta calls Stoffe and decides to meet him, and he tries to persuade him to give up heroin, but the two have a falling out and they separate. This film features other users from the previous film, such as Jajje and Kenta Bergkvist. The film ends with the death of a prominent person in the trilogy.
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1979

En film om Modstrilogin

En film om Modstrilogin

A documentary about Stefan Jarl's Mod-trilogy.
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They Call Us Misfits

They Call Us Misfits

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy.
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1968