Movie Details
Original Language:Swedish
Production Companies:SVT
Saatana perkele helvettiin
21 minDocumentary
About the Korpela movement or Siikavaara sect active during the 1930s 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 BabylonPerkele over and over Swearing and cursing all the way to Eden