The Day the Earth Froze

Name: The Day the Earth Froze
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Released: 1959-08-24
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Urho Somersalmi, Mikhail Troyanovsky, Aleksandra Macheret, Ada Vojtsik, Georgi Millyar

The Most Chilling Terror Ever Experienced

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Release Date

8/24/1959

Runtime

90 mins

Genres

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.

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Original Language

Finnish

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A mythologically-rooted fantasy adventure where cosmic stakes, the theft of the sun itself, unfold with the deliberate, folkloric pacing of a tale being told by firelight. The darkness is literal and existential, lending weight to even its pulpier moments.