The Day the Earth Froze

Name: The Day the Earth Froze
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 24 Aug 1959
Rating: 4.40
Cast: Andris O&scaron;iņ&scaron;, Eve Kivi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Urho Somersalmi

The Most Chilling Terror Ever Experienced 1959-08-24 Finland, Soviet Union 90 minutes.

4.40 25 votes

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

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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.

Year 1959

Studio Mosfilm, Suomi-Filmi

Director Aleksandr Ptushko

Crew Grigori Yagdfeld (Writer), Igor Morozov (Original Music Composer), Gleb Kuznetsov (Producer), Risto Orko (Producer), Viktor Vitkovich (Writer), Aleksandr Ptushko (Director)

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Language suomi, Pусский