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The Day the Earth Froze

The Day the Earth Froze

The Most Chilling Terror Ever Experienced

19594.51h 30m

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.

Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
Written by Viktor Vitkovich, Grigori Yagdfeld, Elias Lönnrot
Produced by Gleb Kuznetsov, Risto Orko
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Top Cast

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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

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Themes & Keywords

witchbased on novel or bookdarknessmillbased on myths, legends or folklorefinnish mythologykalevala (finnish national epic)

About The Day the Earth Froze

The Day the Earth Froze is a adventure, fantasy film released in 1959 exploring themes of witch, based on novel or book, darkness, mill, based on myths, legends or folklore, finnish mythology. Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, it stars Andris Ošiņš, Eve Kivi, Anna Orochko. 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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