The Sampo (1959) 5/6

The story of the Sampo, the magical object that produces riches, from a Finnish-Soviet movie from 1959 (=basicly the first part of the movie). The story is based on the Finnish national epic, The Kalevala, that was used as an inspiration for J. R. R. Tolkien among others.

Notice that almost all the characters have some sort of magic or act as shamans. And unlike the women in The Lord of the Rings, the women of the Kalevala also have very strong personality, like Louhi, the sorceress of the Pohyola ('The North-Country'). Pohyola may be thought of as a real place in the north or as a world in a totally different reality.

The dialoge is on meter, like in the Kalevala, but the ENGLISH TRANSLATION is a shortened prose version.

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[xwaystranger]

Not only a Magical story, but it also shows that the audience was capable of viewing a magical script in 1959. Today we only get dark sorcerer propaganda from Hollywood. Where is the real feeling of a magic today in movies? Only CGI robot tricks.

[kozmon0t]

For a minute I thought she was gonna go talk to the fishes like Louhi said

[weishauptogram]

@CristinaFernandez ''And I'll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.''

[CristinaFernandez]

"I thank you Bird Tree, and you, oh Road! Most of all I thank the day-light."

This reminds me of that scene in the Simpsons where they parody MacGyver:

"You have saved our villiage, Senor MacGyver."

"Don't thank me, Mr. Mayor. Thank the gravitational pull of the Moon!"