Stefan Jarl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stefan Jarl

Swedish documentary filmmaker and film director

Date of Birth: 18-Mar-1941

Place of Birth: Skara, Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Profession: screenwriter, film director, director

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stefan Jarl (born 18 March 1941) 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 Det sociala arvet (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.