Leif Bäckström

Leif Bäckström is the main antagonist of the 1996 Swedish movie Jägarna ("The Hunters").

He was portrayed by Lennart Jähkel.

Biography
Leif and his brother Erik both grew up with an tyrannical father, but Erik moved away early while Leif was left with him. As an adult, Erik feels guilty for leaving his brother alone with their father.

Erik, who is now a policeman, moves to their homevillage in Norrbotten where he also gets a new job and Leif welcomes him. At the same time, there is a poaching going on that the citiznens don't think the police is doing much about it. Leif also meets the Philippinian woman Nena whom he becomes intrested in.

Erik starts to suspect that it is Leif's huntingteam who is behind the poachings. He goes to the team's facility to inspect and he fainds certain evidences, but the team arrives and attacks him. Leif knocks him down from behind and leaves him. when Erik wakes up, all the evidences has been removed.

Meanwhile, Leif's hunting team is on a poach. They accidently shoots an innocent man in the forrest whose wife witnesess the murder and tries to run away, but Leif chases and kills her as well. However, the mentally challenged Ove witnesses the murders and tells Leif about it.

While Erik is on a speech, Nena is alone in Leif and Erik's house when Leif and his team arrives. Because of Leif being viruently xenophobic as well, he and his team gangrapes Nena, which later makes her leave the country. When Erik comes back home, he has no idea where she is and gets worried.

It is also revealed that Ove is Leif and Erik's half-brother. Leif finds out that Ove has witnessed, so the team desides to kill him. Leif manipulates Ove to hang out with his team to the forrest only to be shot by all the members. When Erik finds them they all look sadly att Ove's corpse. At the police station, Leif tells the police that they didn't kill Ove on purpose and that they have no evidence for it.

That night, Erik interogates Tomme, one of the hunters in Leif's team, and he confesses that they killed the couple in the forrest. Erik then arrives home and interogate Leif as well, who then admits the murder and say that he will turn himself into the police. When Erik leaves the house, Leif sets fire on gunpowder and explodes himself up.