---
title: 'Sampo (1959)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Risto Orko'
released: '1959-08-24'
runtime_minutes: 99
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
countries:
  - 'Soviet Union'
  - 'Finland'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sampo-1959'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053240/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Sampo (1959)

1959 · 99 min · Fantasy · Soviet Union, Finland

Original title: Сампо

## Synopsis

Sampo 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Risto Orko](https://cinepixo.com/people/risto-orko), [Aleksandr Ptushko](https://cinepixo.com/people/aleksandr-ptushko)
- **Producer:** [Risto Orko](https://cinepixo.com/people/risto-orko)
- **Screenplay:** [Grigory Yagdfeld](https://cinepixo.com/people/grigory-yagdfeld), [Viktor Vitkovich](https://cinepixo.com/people/viktor-vitkovich)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Igor Morozov](https://cinepixo.com/people/igor-morozov)
- **Director of Photography:** [Viktor Yakushev](https://cinepixo.com/people/viktor-yakushev)

## Cast

- [Georgy Millyar](https://cinepixo.com/people/georgy-millyar)
- [Urho Somersalmi](https://cinepixo.com/people/urho-somersalmi) as Väinämöinen
- [Anna Orochko](https://cinepixo.com/people/anna-orochko) as Louhi
- [Ivan Voronov](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivan-voronov) as Ilmarinen
- [Eve Kivi](https://cinepixo.com/people/eve-kivi)
- [Andris Ošiņš](https://cinepixo.com/people/andris-osins) as Lemminkäinen

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/sampo-1959
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1171209); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.