Stefan Jarl — Director (8)

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Nature's Revenge (1983)
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other title: Naturens hämnd
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.

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The Soul Is Greater Than the World (1985)
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other title: Själen är större än världen / Sjalen er Storre an Varlden
A documentary about Swedish Discus champion Ricky Bruch as he prepares for the 1984 Olympics. The film highlights Bruch's obsessive behavior regarding his training and preparations. Facing difficulties with the Swedish Olympic Committee, Bruch is denied the right to compete in the Olympic Games. Bent on revenge, he trains like an animal and competes in smaller competitions, ultimately throwing his career-best 71.26 meters (233 feet, 9 inches). Proving to himself and the world that he is the greatest, Ricky's throw would have won the 1984 Olympics by nearly 5 meters.

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Nature's Warrior (1997)
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other title: Jag är din krigare / 我的战士 …
13 year old Kim feels at home in the wilderness. One night, nature's soul appears to him in the form of an Indian, and designates him nature's protector. Kim decides to remain out in the forest and live off what nature provides. Soon, however, Kim's assignment becomes more serious. He has to try and save as many animals as he can from man's pointless killing, and he will stop at nothing.

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Dom kallar oss mods (They call us misfits) (1968)
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Stefan Jarl / Jan Lindkvist actor: Stefan Jarl / Jan Lindkvist
other title: They Call Us Misfits / Dom kallar oss mods …
This is the story of "Kenta" & "Stoffe" and their friends. We get to follow them from when they're teenagers smoking dope and having fun. As the years pass "Stoffe" OD's on heroine and die ! "Kenta" get's of the heavy drugs while he still can. He is still with us. In the last one "Misfits To Yuppies", We get to meet their children who now is the age their parents was in the first film and see what happened to them. 3 Parts: 1. They Call Us Misfits, 1968.avi 2. A Decent Life, 1979.avi 3. Misfits To Yuppies, 1993.avi DivX, Swedish audio, English subtitles An epic and incredible series that EVERYONE should see ! 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. If They Call Us Misfits was a straightforward documentary about a generation adrift, then A Decent Life is a complex portrait of the same generation on its way to frightening collective suicide, where the weapon is a syringe full of heroin. The Swedish title is part1: "Dom kallar oss mods" part2: "Ett anst?ndigt liv" part3: "Det sociala arvet" In 1968, fresh from studies at the Swedish Institute of Film, a young man named Stefan Jarl made a feature documentary about two Stockholm "Mod" hippies. "They Call Us Misfits" was intended to allow teenagers to see themselves. The film not only succeeded in that, but – after some trouble with censors over sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll – it become a reference point for Scandinavian film. Jarl went on to make two more films about misfits Kenta and Stoffe in 1979 and 1993. In the sequels, restlessness and pot smoking give way to family trouble and heroin overdoses – plus the paradox of yuppie offspring. The films bare the unattractive underbelly of the Swedish welfare state. -- [Dec 2005]

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A Decent Life (1979)
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other title: 尊严生活 / Ett anständigt liv …
Great!, 12 August 2002 Author: André Grisell This movie was rated 8th in a ballot of the best Swedish films ever made, and I can understand it. Although nowadays a little aged, the intensity and nearness to the ones involved is universal and panchronical. The film bears a witness of how the society is unable to cope with the less well-off. The humanity is overwhelming. As assassinated Olof Palme said: "An incredibly human document". 10/10.

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Misfits to Yuppies (1993)
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other title: Det sociala arvet / The Social Contract …
Det Sociala arvet (Generation to Generation), directed by Stefan Jarl, from 1993 is the last of three films (Dom kallar oss mods [They Call Us Misfits], Ett anständigt liv [A Decent Life]). The movie shows the conditions for junkies in Stockholm and tries to figure out how the social legacy has been transferred to their children from previous films. Are these children with their parents background lost from the beginning? The protagonists are Gustav 'Stoffe' Svensson, Kenneth "Kenta" Gustafsson,Jajja, Janne, Patric and Carina.

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Hotet (1987)
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other title: Threat
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.