Stefan Jarl

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Stefan Jarl (born March 18, 1941 in Skara ) is a Swedish documentary filmmaker and film director .

life and work

As a 12-year-old, Jarl borrowed the 8 mm film camera from his father, who was interested in photography and made cine films. When he saw "a documentary about the extermination of the Jews and the concentration camps in Germany", Jarl got enthusiastic about the documentary genre and working with the film camera and decided to make films from now on.

But it wasn't just the film that interested him in his early youth, but also the nature of his Swedish homeland, which made Stefan Jarl aware of Arne Sucksdorff's films . When Sucksdorff began shooting the film Pojken i Trädet (The Boy in the Tree) near Skara in 1959 , Jarl had a unique opportunity to get to know the Swedish documentary filmmaker. Until 1960 he worked for him as an assistant.

From 1961 to 1964 he studied art at Uppsala University . After graduating, he attended the Stockholm Film Academy in 1965/66 . After making his first full-length documentary in 1968, he worked from 1969 to 1976 as production manager for Stig Björkman , Öyvind Fahlström , Mai Zetterling and Bo Widerberg and again as an assistant to Arne Sucksdorff.

Jarl, who is best known for socially critical films, founded the cultural association Folkets Bio together with Ulf Berggren in 1973 , which imports films from all over the world and markets them in Sweden.

His best-known film is the trilogy Dom kallar oss mods (They call us Mods ) with the first part of the same name, Ett anständigt liv (A decent life) as the second part and Det sociala arvet (The social heritage) as the closing element. The latter won the 1993 European Film Prize in the “Best Documentary” category.

In 2010 he had his blood and that of a colleague tested for toxins for the documentary "In Defense of the Unborn" and then researched their origin. Among the more than 200 toxins found in the analysis, they found highly toxic flame retardants used in theaters and pesticides that his body had never broken down for 30 years and that had been unsaleable for 30 years. In the film, he interviews the two chemists who are solely responsible for the health approval for thousands of traded goods.

Filmography

  • 1968: Dom kallar oss mods
  • 1972: Ture Sventon, private detective
  • 1976: music films
  • 1979: A decent life (Ett decent liv)
  • 1983: The revenge of nature (hamming natures)
  • 1984: En av oss
  • 1985: The soul is bigger than the world (Själen är större än världen)
  • 1987: Threat (Hotet)
  • 1989: Tiden har inget namn
  • 1990: Good People (Godahabenkor)
  • 1991: Jåvna, renskötare år 2000
  • 1993: The Lost (Det sociala arvet)
  • 1994: Samernas land
  • 1997: I am your warrior (Jag är din krigare)
  • 1998: Life at any price (Liv till varje pris)
  • 2000: De hemlösa
  • 2000: Från Sverige i tiden
  • 2002: Murars
  • 2003: Terrorister - en film om dom dömda
  • 2005: Flickan från Auschwitz (a documentary about the life of Cordelia Edvardson )
  • 2010: Underkastelsen: In Defense of the unborn (Documentation on poisons in products and buildings)

Awards

  • 1979: Guldbagge in the category "Best Director" (for Ett decent liv )
  • 1992: LAFCA in the category "Best Documentary" (for Hotet )
  • 1993: European film award in the category "Best Documentary" (for Det sociala arvet )
  • 2002: Nominated for the European Film Award in the category "Best Documentary" (for Muraren )
  • 2003: Guldbagge in the category "Best Documentary" (for Muraren )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friends of the Deutsche Kinemathek eV about the film Jag år din Krigare by Stefan Jarl with biography , cf. fdk-berlin.de
  2. ↑ Jarl himself dates the first meeting to 1957, when Sucksdorff was busy editing his film En djungelsaga , which was shot in India , and 16-year-old Jarl rode his bike to Sucksdorff and asked him if he could work for him. See this interview with Jarl ( memento of the original from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.greencine.com
personal data
SURNAME Jarl, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish film director
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Skara