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| Director: | Daniel Monzón | ||
| Producer: | Gerardo Herrero | ||
| Music: | Roque Baños | ||
| Cinematography: | Carles Gusi | ||
| Country: | Spain | ||
| Language: | Spanish | ||
| Budget: | 500 million ₧ |
Heart of the Warrior is a 2000 Spanish action-adventure film directed and written by Daniel Monzón, which stars Fernando Ramallo, Joel Joan and Neus Asensi, also featuring Santiago Segura, Adrià Collado, and Javier Aller, among others.
Playing with Don Quixote tropes, the plot follows the story of Ramón, a teen from Madrid obsessed with sword and sorcery fiction. Ramón creates an alternative self as the warrior Beldar, who partners with warrior princess Sonya.
It is Monzón's debut film.[1] He also wrote it. Gerardo Herrero took over production duties. A Tornasol Films and Creativos Asociados de Radio y Televisión production, the film had a 500 million peseta budget.[2] The score was composed by Roque Baños. Filming took 11 weeks.
The film was screened in Lanzarote in December 1999 during a film industry meeting with European distributors.[3] It was theatrically released in Spain on 21 January 2000.
|-| align = "center" rowspan = "4" | 2001 || rowspan = "2" | 15th Goya Awards || Best New Director || Daniel Monzón || || align = "center" rowspan = "2" | [4] |-| Best Production Supervision || Tino Pont || |}