Ten years have passed. And what you suspected at the end of They Call Us Misfits has become reality: Stoffe didn't make it; during the shooting of the film he takes his final overdose of heroin. It was a hard blow for Stefan Jarl, who was making this film primarily to try to sa-ve Stoffe's life. If They Call Us Misfits was a straightforward docu-mentary about a generation adrift, then A Decent Life is a complex portrait of the same generation on its way to a frightening collective suicide, where the weapon is a syringe full of heroin.
An unbelievably distressing document.
/Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden
A documentary of devastating power. . . This is the one with guts, artistry and passion; a true neglected classic.
/Los Angeles Times
"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.
It´s really a unique Documentary and I think that you should show this films in schools.The music is also fantastic.Could possibly be the most frightening film of all times,it left me speechless."
/anton-6 from sweden [from imdb.com]A DECENT LIFE
35 mm, 1:1,66, colour 102 mins, 1979Read more »"A Respectable Life" article by Mats Nilsson»Shop
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Stefan Jarl, född 18 mars 1941, dokumentärfilmare och filmregissör. Stefan Jarl är känd för att göra filmer med ett socialt engagemang. Stefan Jarl
