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Sampo

1959Movie1 h 30 min

41
WeakGoodWatch score
IMDb4.5Letterboxd3.0/5Rotten Tomatoes–17%
41
WeakGoodWatch score
IMDb4.5Letterboxd3.0/5Rotten Tomatoes–17%

Summary

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.

Good for

  • Date night
  • Family movie night
  • Friends night

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  • Takes you somewhere else.
  • Leaves you in awe.
  • Keeps you on edge.

Not for laughs.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Tropes

Back from the Deadin 986 titlesLemminkäinen's first attempt to retrieve the Sampo ends with Louhi distracting him and then administering a fatal snake bite, then throwing his dead body into the sea.Adaptation Distillationin 1,956 titlesThe Kalevala is a sprawling epic, to say the least, and the script of this film only concentrates on the first and third Väinämöinen cycles (the forging and subsequent loss of the Sampo), the first L…All 25 tropes

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