The Day the Earth Froze (1959)
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.
Release Date : August 24, 1959
Runtime : 90m
Companies : Mosfilm, Suomi-Filmi
Countries : Finland, Soviet Union
Keywords : witch, based on novel or book, darkness, mill, based on myths, legends or folklore, finnish mythology, kalevala (finnish national epic)