Sampo

Sampo — Plot

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
• 90 min
• Genres
• Adventure, Fantasy
• Director
• Aleksandr Ptushko

Sampo — Cast

Urho Somersalmi Väinämöinen Anna Orochko Louhi Ivan Voronov Ilmarinen

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Andris Ošiņš Lemminkäinen Ada Vojtsik Mother of Lemminkäinen Eve Kivi Annikki Georgi Millyar Sorcerer Mikhail Troyanovsky Soothsayer