Sampo (1959)

4.6/10 90 min Adventure Fantasy

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.

Cast

Urho Somersalmi

Väinämöinen

Anna Orochko

Louhi

Ivan Voronov

Ilmarinen

Ada Vojtsik

Mother of Lemminkäinen

Eve Kivi

Annikki

Georgi Millyar

Sorcerer

Mikhail Troyanovsky

Soothsayer

Anatoliy Barantsev

Viktor Uralsky

Vladimir Boriskin

Pyotr Modnikov

Valentin Bryleev

Olga Lenskaya

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