They Call Us Misfits (1968)

Original title

Dom kallar oss mods

Directed by

Stefan Jarl

Genre

documentary film

Country

Sweden

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 27 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This Swedish documentary follows two alienated teenagers, Kenta and Stoffe, as they navigate mod and street culture in 1960s Stockholm. It offers an unblinking look at their daily joys and growing troubles without judging them.

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What happens

They Call Us Misfits (Swedish: Dom kallar oss mods) is a 1968 Swedish documentary film directed, produced and written by Stefan Jarl and Jan Lindqvist. The film is an uncompromising account of the life of two alienated teenagers, Kenneth "Kenta" Gustafsson (1948–2003) and Gustav "Stoffe" Svensson (1950–1978). The film, like its successor Ett anständigt liv (1979; A Respectable Life) takes a close but non-moralizing look at the joys and growing pains of mod and "junkie" street culture in Stockholm at the time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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