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An elusive legend that Jon Blåhed manages to land in reality. Many have tried to stage this story but most of them have come up empty-handed. The first major publication came in 1969 with Henning and Ernst Sjöström's book "Silverarken". Where shameless indulgence took all the place. Fiction more than fact. Twenty years later, the priest and author Bengt Pohjanen put everything right with his fantastic "Dagning röd". A lush and abundant narrative that Jon Blåhed's film is based on. The book was adapted to the stage in 1993 by Peter Oskarsson. Which resulted in a completely lifeless mass. Agneta Fagerström-Olsson and John O. Olsson tried to turn this project into a film without success. The theatre collective Institutet in Vitsaniemi recreated the Korpela movement as a black metal rock concert in 2021. But it's an elusive legend that's easy to get lost in. Jon Blåhed chose one track that was essentially the source, Pojhanen's Book, and he got it right. The film benefits immensely from the fact that Meänkieli and Finnish are spoken. The people in power, on the other hand, speak Swedish.

Just watched this film. A story based on real events. It is surprising that people do not learn from their history. This applies to religion, sects that have their own interpretation, war, genocide, the Holocaust. A war has never been won, murdering each other has never made anyone better. Being born into or forced into a religion or sect does not make anyone feel good. We are all made of flesh and blood on the inside, we have different cultures and we do not look the same. Why can't we accept one and other as human beings? Look at our world now, it's getting worse and worse. People have a long history, but it has not helped people become better. When are we going to learn? That is the big question.