The Day the Earth Froze

The Day the Earth Froze

1959
1h 30m
4.5

4.5/10

28 votes • View on IMDb
Adventure Fantasy

"The Most Chilling Terror Ever Experienced"

Overview

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.

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Language: FI

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Production Information

Production Companies
Mosfilm Suomi-Filmi
Production Countries
Finland Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Finnish Russian

Keywords

witch based on novel or book darkness mill based on myths, legends or folklore finnish mythology kalevala (finnish national epic)

Quick Facts

Original Title Sampo
Release Date August 24, 1959
Status Released
Language FI
IMDb ID tt0053240

Cast

Andris Ošiņš
Andris Ošiņš

Lemminkäinen

Eve Kivi
Eve Kivi

Annikki

Anna Orochko
Anna Orochko

Louhi

Ivan Voronov
Ivan Voronov

Ilmarinen

Urho Somersalmi
Urho Somersalmi

Väinämöinen

Vladimir Boriskin
Vladimir Boriskin

Ada Vojtsik
Ada Vojtsik

Mother of Lemminkäinen

Anatoliy Barantsev
Anatoliy Barantsev

Valentin Bryleev
Valentin Bryleev

Georgi Millyar
Georgi Millyar

Sorcerer

Mikhail Troyanovsky
Mikhail Troyanovsky

Marvin Miller
Marvin Miller

Narrator

Key Crew

Grigori Yagdfeld
Writer
Gleb Kuznetsov
Producer
Risto Orko
Producer
Viktor Vitkovich
Writer
Aleksandr Ptushko
Director