The Day the Earth Froze (1959)
August 24, 1959
Adventure, Fantasy
1h 30m
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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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Aleksandr Ptushko
- Annikki Eve Kivi
- Louhi Anna Orochko
- Ilmarinen Ivan Voronov
- Väinämöinen Urho Somersalmi
- Vladimir Boriskin
- Mother of Lemminkäinen Ada Vojtsik
- Anatoliy Barantsev
- Valentin Bryleev
Recommendations
Keywords
- witch
- based on novel or book
- darkness
- mill
- based on myths, legends or folklore
- finnish mythology
- kalevala (finnish national epic)