The Day the Earth Froze
Sampo
Release: 1959-08-24
·Runtime: 90m
·★ 4.5
Adventure
Fantasy
Based on Finnish mythology; Lemminkäinen woos the fair Annikki and battles the evil witch Louhi. Louhi kidnaps Annikki to compel her brother to build for her a Sampo, a magical device that creates salt, grain, and gold. When Lemminkäinen fails to recover the Sampo, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into frozen darkness.
Production Countries
Finland
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Suomi-Filmi
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Valentin Bryleev
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Marvin Miller
as Narrator
Vladimir Boriskin
Viktor Uralsky
Aleksandra Macheret
Anna Orochko
as Louhi
Ada Vojtsik
as Mother of Lemminkäinen
Georgi Millyar
as Sorcerer
Olga Lenskaya
Eve Kivi
as Annikki
Ivan Voronov
as Ilmarinen
Urho Somersalmi
as Väinämöinen
Anatoliy Barantsev
