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This is the second part of Stefans Jarl’s Mods trilogy. The films depict the story of Kenta and Stoffe, but at the same time tells the story of Swedish society between the years 1968 and 1993. In A Respectable Life, we return to Kenta and Stoffe eleven years later. Both have created a family. Kenta has done his best and now has a more stable life. Stoffe, however dies during recording, after an overdose of heroin.Read More »
Stefan Jarl
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Stefan Jarl – Ett anständigt liv AKA A Respectable Life (1979)
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Stefan Jarl – Samernas land AKA Land Of The Lapps (1994)
1991-2000DocumentaryEthnographic CinemaStefan JarlSwedenQuote:
This short film is only thirteen minutes long, but it is a razor-sharp depiction of civilization pushing out Europe’s last wilderness in Northern Sweden. The white man is hunting ptarmigan, enormous exer-tions are being expended, watercourses are running dry and forests are being devastated. Thirteen minutes about a world in change. But un-fortunately not for the better.
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Stefan Jarl & Lukas Moodysson – Terrorister – en film om dom dömda AKA Terrorists: The Kids They Sentenced (2003)
2001-2010DocumentaryLukas MoodyssonStefan JarlSwedenA feature-length documentary, possibly focusing, at least in part, on the recent anti-globalisation protests in Gothenburg, Sweden and the alleged police misconduct during the protests. The first film to be made by the appeal group ‘Swedish Film Workers for Peace and Freedom in an Independent Palestine’.Read More »
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Stefan Jarl – Det sociala arvet AKA Misfits to Yuppies (1993)
1991-2000CultDocumentaryStefan JarlSwedenQuote:
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Stefan Jarl – Ett Anständigt Liv aka A Decent Life (1979)
1971-1980CultDocumentaryStefan JarlSwedenDescription: IMDB – This anti-drug film is the second in the “Mods trilogy” the first is “They call us Mods”.It´s the same persons as in the first film: The very young people has now grown up but now they take drugs and many of them dies.Kenta and Stoffe(they meet one time in the film and plays bowling) is no longer best friends.Stoffe dies in this film because of drugs.The last film in the trilogy is about Kenta´s and Stoffe´s children.Read More »
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Stefan Jarl – Dom kallar oss mods AKA They Call Us Misfits (1968)
1961-1970CultDocumentaryStefan JarlSwedenDescription: They Call Us Misfits follows a group of teenagers as they become recipients, then victims, of Sweden’s welfare-state economy. The group eschews traditional social values, engaging in selling drugs and smugly criticizing those who adhere to a schedule and a steady job. This documentary-style film interviews young people who feel disenfranchised and out of place in the world but show little if any ambition to improve their station in life. They willingly speak of their future hopes, providing they have any, and their childhood experiences which led to their present situation and philosophical beliefs.Read More »