Movies: Stefan Jarl

A documentary about acclaimed Swedish film director Bo Widerberg....

"U-barn was based on a few simple things: combining some forms of societal imprinting through education and advertisement, some educational situations and an old commercial. And then genetic imprinting, i.e., handicaps of some kind, and show how chil...

Naturens Hämnd ("Nature's Revenge") is a moving and thought-provoking documentary about what we do with our natural enviroment, and what concequences it brings along....

A documentary about acclaimed Swedish actor Thommy Berggren....

About the "aware, free and unrestrained modern woman" Anna Susanna....

A documentary which visually captures the day-to-day routines of a husband and wife on a small farm....

A documentary about Arne Sucksdorff. Stefan Jarl interviews Sucksdorff in his home where they talk about his films, life and memories....

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A hot summer evening at a youth club in the city of Stockholm. 13 youngsters talk about their experiences of police violence and their views on the police....

On Saturday, April 26, spring came to Sweden. That same day, Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Bringing mild winds to Scandinavia. Sweden suffered heavily of radioactive poison....

Birgitta Trotzig's "A Landscape" depicted from the mythology of the sore human deaths from which the drug has been collected....

A portrait of the legendary Swedish journalist and writer Cordelia Edvardson (1929-2012). She was only fourteen when she alone was brought to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt and later to the camp of Auschwitz....

A documentary about where our soul is in today's society....

The twelve-year-old Jåvna is the guide to the Sami everyday life. He talks about his culture and about his future as a reindeer herder. The film depicts the conflict between Swedish society and the Sámi world....

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A short tribute to director Stefan Jarl's late friend, filmmaker Bo Widerberg, who passed away in 1997 at the age of 66....

This is what the filmmakers say about the film: We wanted to make a feature film about the class society Sweden. But we were not allowed by the Swedish Film Institute. At least we filmed some and cut it together into a short film. The class society i...

Stefan Jarl and the Danish director Carsten Brandt, having exchanged letters for many years, decide to start a correspondence of cinema letters. They are interrupted when Carsten is diagnosed with cancer, but Stefan continues to send his short film l...

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'Gästgivargår'n' depicts a restaurant at the foot of Kinnekulle dating back to the 1500s. There, restaurateur Stefan Johansson runs an inn based on local ingredients....