Rainer Hartleb (born 29 February 1944 in Hildburghausen, Germany) is a German-Swedish director of documentary films which have followed a group of people from Jordbro, barnen från Jordbro, from the age of seven, when they began school in 1972, until the present. The documentary series has had six parts. The documentary film En pizza i Jordbro won a Guldbagge Award. On 13 January 2007 Hartleb won TV4's Guldsolen film prize for 2006. So far, he has worked on six films about the Jordbro children.