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Subject: Re: FAVE SF MOVIES
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Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 11:37:42 EST
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Re: "Day the Earth Froze" (what an obnoxious title).
Clearly a foreign film, and looks like it was made
quite a while ago.  Could it be a silent film, originally?
I seem to have seen it shown that way at a convention
once, and it isn't nearly as bad without the dubbed
English soundtrack!
   By the way, the Kalevala is a peculiar sort of
national Epic, since it was the work of one man (Elias
Lonnrot (sp?)) who assembled it from diligently collected
oral folk legends, songs, and poems.  By the time he collected
the stuff (in the 19th century, I think; don't quote me),
figures like Kullervo who probably had once had high mythic
stature had diminished into semi-comical folk figures.
Interestingly, Tolkien and Sibelius (THERE's an odd pair!)
both raised Kullervo back to heroic status (in the
tale of Turin and in the Kullervo Symphony, respectively).
Ramble, ramble...

	Mike