
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.
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Before Winter Comes (2018)
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A Respectable Life (1979)
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The Soul Is Greater Than the World (1985)
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Misfits to Yuppies (1993)
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The Subjection (2010)
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Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003)
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Memento Mori (1980)
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Nature's Warrior (1997)
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Life at Any Cost (1998)
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They Call Us Misfits (1968)
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We Have Our Own Song - The Music Movie (1976)
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Decency (2013)
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The Girl from Auschwitz (2005)
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Good People (1990)
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Epilog (2006)
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Jåvna, renskötare år 2000 (1991)
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En film om Arne Sucksdorff (2000)
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Muraren (2002)
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The Threat (1987)
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Beauty Will Save the World (2000)
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Paradise Lost (2004)
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Time Has No Name (1989)
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Snutarna (1966)
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Ursäkta mig (2026)
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Transform Sweden (1974)
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Samernas land (1994)
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Brevfilmen (2021)
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Gästgivargår'n (2001)
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Koltrasten (2014)
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De hemlösa (2000)
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Nature's Revenge (1983)
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Själen för fan (2024)
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