Stefan Jarl Movies

1968 - the year of riots, fights and protests. And demonstrations: against the Vietnam War, against teenage fairs, against the Davis Cup and even...

A documentary by Ronny Svensson and Markus Stromqvist on the making of Bo Widerberg's 1976 movie Man on the Roof, featuring extensive interviews with...

Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet...

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

The film documents the alternative festival, made to protest against the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm 1975. There are many Swedish and...

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...

About changes in the Sami living conditions. Traditional remarking and untouched nature mixed with images of brutal industrialist attacks in the...

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

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

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

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

With impressive visual clarity, memories, experiences, and events are interwoven with myths and dreams in a film about the search for meaning in a...

A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in...

A documentary about acclaimed Swedish actor Thommy Berggren.

Detective Martin Beck investigates the grisly murder of a police Lieutenant in his hospital room, he soon realises the urgency of the case when it...

A family on a small farm tries to live as usual even though there is a violent coup in the country. The threat is constantly present.

A documentary film depicting a group of young boys from Stockholm which live on the outskirts of society. The film is the first part of a trilogy.

Göte is an alcoholic dockworker who wants to turn his life around to get his son back.

Loosely based on the Sala gang, a group of five people that committed murders and thefts in Sweden in the 1930s.