| Quest for a Heart | |
| Director: | Pekka Lehtosaari |
| Producer: | Marko Röhr Vladimir Taubkin Andre Sikojev Stefan Beiten Mike Downey Michael Henrichs Zorana Piggott Sophokles Tasioulis Sam Taylor Nikolaus Weil |
| Music: | Tuomas Kantelinen |
| Studio: | MRP Matila Röhr Productions Greenlight Media AG Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) Kontakt Production Center |
| Distributor: | Nordisk Film (Finland) HB Films (UK) |
| Runtime: | 78 minutes |
| Language: | Finnish German English Russian |
| Country: | Finland Germany United Kingdom Russia |
| Budget: | €5,200,000[1] |
| Gross: | $3,133,499[2] |
Quest for a Heart (Finnish: '''Röllin sydän''') is a 2007 animated film directed by Pekka Lehtosaari. It is based on the Rölli character created by Allu Tuppurainen, and while it is the third Rölli film (previous films are from 1991 and Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods from 2001), it is also the first Rölli animation. It is also one of the first feature-length animated films produced in Finland, before that an animated adaptation of Seven Brothers was released in 1979, Santa Claus and the Magic Drum was released in 1996 and The Emperor's Secret in 2006. With its over 5 million euro budget,[1] Quest for a Heart is one of the most expensive Finnish films.
The film won the Best Animation Award at the German Schlingel Film Festival in October 2008 and at the Chicago Children's Film Festival in November 2008.[3] [4]
The story revolves around Rölli the troll who accompanies a spunky elf girl named Milli on a quest to find a magical heart that will save the trolls' village from being turned to stone, despite the fact that trolls and elves are completely opposite in nature.
The film was released on DVD in most European territories, and was released as a direct-to-video film in United Kingdom on DVD by HB Films.