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Sampo
Сампо
1959 · Film · 90 min
Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
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.
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I remember it from watching some weird black and white movie as a kid on some communist TV station. There was a long haired old man chanting "Kalevala show yourself" over and over again (all foreign stuff was subtitled for us). Nothing else stuck :-)
(Edit: it's possible it was Sampo, even though that seems to be in color. We just didn't have color TVs back then).
Haha my girlfriend and I still sing the Sampo song. That movie is so disjointed that I didn’t even recognize this was that.
And I still don’t know what the Sampo is!