Sampo (1959)
Note: this print runs 90 minutes against a recorded 99 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Georgy Millyar, Ivan Voronov, Eve Kivi, Andris Ošiņš
Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko, Risto Orko
Sampo (Russian: Сампо) is a 1959 Soviet-Finnish fantasy film based loosely on the events depicted in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. In the United States, it was released in an edited version, The Day the Earth Froze, by American International Pictures as a double feature with Conquered City. This version was later featured in a 1993 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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