Film
Sampo
Finland · SU- Director
- Aleksandr Ptushko
- Year
- 1959
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.
Top cast
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
Directed by
Aleksandr Ptushko
Written by
Viktor Vitkovich, Grigori Yagdfeld
Produced by
Risto Orko
