Sampo
4.6
29 votes
1959
1h 30m
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.
Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
Top cast
Urho Somersalmi
Väinämöinen
Anna Orochko
Louhi
Ivan Voronov
IlmarinenA
Andris Ošiņš
Lemminkäinen
Ada Vojtsik
Mother of Lemminkäinen
Eve Kivi
Annikki
Georgi Millyar
Sorcerer
Mikhail Troyanovsky
SoothsayerL
Lennart Lauramaa
T
Toivo Romppainen
E
Emma Hippelainen
N
Nadezhda Kollen
Anatoliy Barantsev
Viktor Uralsky
Vladimir Boriskin
Pyotr Modnikov
Valentin Bryleev
A
Aleksandra Macheret
Olga Lenskaya
S
Sylva Rossi
Details
Status
Released
Release date
August 24, 1959
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Language
Russian
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