

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, Aleksey Stefanskiy, Gleb Kuznetsov
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Released
August 24, 1959
1h 30m
Russian

Urho Somersalmi
Väinämöinen

Anna Orochko
Louhi

Ivan Voronov
Ilmarinen
Andris Ošiņš
Lemminkäinen

Ada Vojtsik
Mother of Lemminkäinen

Eve Kivi
Annikki

Georgi Millyar
Sorcerer

Mikhail Troyanovsky
Soothsayer
Lennart Lauramaa
Toivo Romppainen
Emma Hippelainen
Nadezhda Kollen

Anatoliy Barantsev

Viktor Uralsky

Vladimir Boriskin

Pyotr Modnikov

Valentin Bryleev
Aleksandra Macheret

Olga Lenskaya
Sylva Rossi