- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: fi
- Country: Finland, Soviet Union
- Director: Aleksandr Ptushko
- Stars: Andris Oshin, Eve Kivi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Urho Somersalmi
- keywords: witch, based on novel or book, darkness, mill, based on myths, legends or folklore, finnish mythology, kalevala (finnish national epic)
- Production_studio: Mosfilm, Suomi-Filmi
- Slogan: The Most Chilling Terror Ever Experienced
- providers: Fandor Amazon Channel
- The The Day the Earth Froze is featured in the top rankings of 1959
- #31 in Top Adventure Movies of 1959
- #6 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1959
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.