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The Day the Earth Froze
1959, Aug 24
1h 30m
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
Marvin Miller
Narrator
Georgi Millyar
Sorcerer
Ada Vojtsik
Mother of Lemminkäinen
Anatoliy Barantsev
Mikhail Troyanovsky
Eve Kivi
Annikki
Valentin Bryleev
Urho Somersalmi
Väinämöinen
Viktor Uralsky
Anna Orochko
Louhi
Ivan Voronov
Ilmarinen
Vladimir Boriskin
Olga Lenskaya
Andris Ošiņš
Lemminkäinen
Sylva Rossi
Anneli Haahdenmaa
Annikki (voice)
Alice Lyly
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