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