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
Urho Somersalmi
as Väinämöinen
Georgi Millyar
as Sorcerer
Viktor Uralsky
Vladimir Boriskin
Marvin Miller
as Narrator
Aleksandra Macheret
Eve Kivi
as Annikki
Valentin Bryleev
Anna Orochko
as Louhi
Ivan Voronov
as Ilmarinen
Ada Vojtsik
as Mother of Lemminkäinen
Anatoliy Barantsev
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Olga Lenskaya
