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Quest for a Heart

Synopsis

A young troll, Rolli, and his friends find themselves caught up in a quest to find a magic heart that will save his village and all the world from turning to stone. Worst yet he finds he has to do this with the help of a beautiful Elf, Milli, the surmise of everything a troll can't stand.

Details

Year
2008
Type of project
Features
Running time
61 mins
Director
Pekkha Lehtosaari
Producer
Marko Rohr, Ilkka Matila, Andre Sikojev, Vladimir Taubkin, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Sophocles Tasioulis, Zorana Piggott
Editor
Aleksi Raij, Sergei Minakin
Screenwriter
Pekkha Lehtosaari
Director of Photography
A Rjabovichev
Production Designer
Igor Oleynikov
Sound
James Perry
Composer
Tuomas Kantelinen
Principal cast
Mackenzie Crook, Lisa Stansfield

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Coproduction between MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy (Finland) Film & Music Entertainment (UK), Greenlight Media AG, (Germany), Producers Center Kontakt (Russia)

Film and Music Entertainment Ltd

142 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0LB
UK

T +44 (0)207 434 6607

katy.moylan@fame.uk.com

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