The Day the Earth Froze
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.
- Year: 1959
- Country: Finland, Soviet Union
- Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
- Studio: Mosfilm, Suomi-Filmi
- Keyword: witch, based on novel or book, darkness, mill, based on myths, legends or folklore, finnish mythology, kalevala (finnish national epic)
- Director: Aleksandr Ptushko
- Cast: Andris Oshin, Eve Kivi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Urho Somersalmi, Vladimir Boriskin