Heikki's ref to the Kalevala

[Greg Montalbano]

It was called "The Day the Earth Froze", a Finnish masterpiece of bad acting
and truly bizarre art direction.
(BTW, this film describes the mysterious SAMPO as a magical device that
produces apparently endless quantities of gold, flour and salt)

>FYI:
>Mystery Science Theatre 3000 has screened a late '50s-early '60 filmic
>version of this epic. Unfortunately or not, the production values
>resemble that of a Balto-Scandic Steve Reeves "epic".
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>It was called something else for the anglophone mkt.
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