Bengt Pohjanen

Bengt Pohjanen

81 (1944-06-26)
Kassa, Pajala, Sweden

Bengt Erik Pohjanen is a Swedish orthodox priest, literary, translator and author.

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Saatana perkele helvettiin 2012

About the Korpela movement or Siikavaara sect active during the 1930's in the far north of Sweden. Toivo Korpela a Laestadian preacher was outmanoeuvred by Sigurd Siikavaara and returned to Finland. Siikavaara who preferred apocalyptic beliefs and ecstatic rituals soon gathered a large following and became prophet #1. With Artur Niemi, prophet #2, he draped and enhanced the rituals with total sexual freedom. At the trial in 1939 Siikavaara assured that he had not been sober one day during the last 8 years. Chanting "Saatana, Saatana, Helvettin, Babylon,Perkele" over and over. Swearing and cursing all the way to Eden.
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Barnavännen 2004

"The Childhood Friend." - Tomas lives with her parents. One day, his father's cousin Serkuu comes to visit. At first Serkuu wins Tomas's trust but later he brutally let's him down. Fifteen years later, Tomas has become a police officer and takes his service revolver when calls on Serkuu to retaliate.
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Karamazov vid Kalixälven 1999

Some people want a sauna on their property, I want a church". The author, playwright and visionary Bengt Pohjanen in Överkalix, Sweden, lets us get lost in Dostoevsky's world. Together with amateur actors from Teater Svanen, he dramatizes the Russian novel "The Brothers Karamazov".