The Day the Earth Froze
1959·Movie
·1h 30min·


About
The Most Chilling Terror Ever Experienced
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.
Finnish MythologyMagical DeviceQuest for the SampoEvil WitchStolen SunHeroic JourneyFolktaleFantasy AdventureCultural Heritage
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Directed by:
Aleksandr Ptushko
Written by:
Viktor Vitkovich, Grigori Yagdfeld, Elias Lönnrot
Produced by:
Risto Orko, Gleb Kuznetsov
Composed by:
Igor Morozov
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