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Quest For A Heart
''Quest for a Heart'' ( fi, Röllin sydän) is a 2007 British/Finnish/Russian/German 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 '' Rolli: Amazing Tales'' 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 ''Santa Claus and the Magic Drum'' was made in 1996 and ''The Emperor's Secret'' in 2006. With its over 5 million euro budget, ''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. Plot 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 be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pekka Lehtosaari
Pekka Lehtosaari (born 10 February 1961) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for directing Finnish-language dubbings of international films, starting with ''The Rescuers Down Under'' in 1990. He directed the Finnish dubbing of ''My Neighbor Totoro''. Movies * ''Santa Claus and the Magic Drum'' (1996), directing. * '' Bad Boys'' (2003), screenwriting. * '' Vares'' (2004), screenwriting. * ''Quest for a Heart'' (2007), screenwriting, directing. * ''Dark Floors ''Dark Floors – The Lordi Motion Picture'' is a 2008 English-language Finnish horror film that features members of the hard rock band Lordi playing the monsters. Band frontman Mr Lordi also designed the film's logo. The film was released in Feb ...'' (2008), screenwriting. References 1961 births Living people Finnish film directors Finnish screenwriters Finnish male voice actors Finnish voice directors {{Finland-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film A/S (lit. "Nordic Film") is a Danish entertainment company established in 1906 in Copenhagen by filmmaker Ole Olsen. It is the fourth-oldest film studio in the world behind the Gaumont Film Company, Pathé, and Titanus, and the oldest studio to be continuously active. History Olsen started his company in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby under the name "Ole Olsen's Film Factory" but soon changed it to the Nordisk Film company. In 1908, Olsen opened an affiliate branch in New York, the Great Northern Film Company, to handle the distribution of his films to the American market. In 1909 having been excluded from the MPPC cartel in the United States, which Olsen had hoped to join, Nordisk participated in the Paris Film Congress in a failed attempt by major European producers to form a similar monopoly. As Nordisk Film, it became a publicly traded company in 1911. In 1992, it merged with the Egmont media group, operating as electronic media production an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SCHLINGEL International Film Festival
Schlingel (Usually written: SCHLINGEL) is an international film festival for children and young audiences. The festival began in 1996, and has taken place annually in Chemnitz ever since in the week before the Saxon Fall Break. The festival gives an overview of the newest international productions in the area of children and youth films. The festival is organized by the Saxon Children and Youth Films Association in Chemnitz. In addition, since 2006, the Saxon Institution for Private Broadcasting and New Media has also helped to organize this event. The patrons of SCHLINGEL are the Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony, as well as the Mayor of Chemnitz. The festival is under the directorate of Michael Harbauer. Development The foundation for the present day International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences SCHLINGEL was laid in 1996 with the first Chemnitz Children's Film Exhibition SCHLINGEL. This first festival ran for one week in the Chemnitz Culture Centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Most Expensive Finnish Films ...
This is a non-definitive list of most expensive Finnish films. References * http://www.hs.fi/grafiikka/1135249487083 * http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/Nykyanimaatiot+kirkkaasti+Suomen+elokuvahistorian+kalleimpia/1135249488275 * http://fin.afterdawn.com/uutiset/arkisto/19514.cfm See also * List of most expensive non-English language films {{DEFAULTSORT:Most expensive Finnish films Most expensive Finnish films Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Emperor's Secret
''The Emperor's Secret'' ( fi, Keisarin salaisuus), released on 8 September 2006, is the first Finnish computer-animated feature film. Plot The film stars the familiar characters from the Finnish TV show '' The Autocrats'' (a political satire of Finnish politics) in a fairy tale where the inhabitants of a small Finnish village have to defend themselves against a despotic emperor. Voice cast * * Anna Bentley * * * Jukka Puotila * Krisse Salminen See also *List of animated feature films *List of computer-animated films A computer-animated film is a feature film that has been computer-animated to appear three-dimensional. While traditional 2D animated films are now made primarily with the help of computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphic ... References External links * * 2006 films 2006 computer-animated films 2000s Finnish-language films Finnish animated films Finnish children's films 2000s children's animated films {{Finland-film- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Claus And The Magic Drum
''Santa Claus and the Magic Drum'' (original Finnish title: ''Joulupukki ja noitarumpu, '') is a 51 minute long Finnish-Hungarian animation released in 1996. The story is based on a 1995 children's book of the same name by Mauri Kunnas. The movie has been recorded in Finnish, English (British) and Swedish. It was made for TV broadcasting and was first shown on Christmas Eve 1996, and has been broadcast on YLE TV2 nearly every Christmas Eve since. ''Santa Claus and the Magic Drum'' has been sold to over 40 countries. In addition to Mauri Kunnas and his wife Tarja Kunnas, the illustrator Sami Toivonen and the cartoonist Kari Korhonen participated in the designing of the animation. The animation work of the film was subcontracted to a Hungarian animation studio Funny Films, operating in Pécs, and involved 50 people. Plot While reading his usual gift wish mail, Santa Claus stumbles upon an unusual letter which everyone assume to be a gift wish letter from a boy called Vekara. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feature Film
A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originally referred to the main, full-length film in a cinema program that included a short film and often a newsreel. Matinee programs, especially in the US and Canada, in general, also included cartoons, at least one weekly serial and, typically, a second feature-length film on weekends. The first narrative feature film was the 60-minute ''The Story of the Kelly Gang'' (1906, Australia). Other early feature films include ''Les Misérables'' (1909, U.S.), ''L'Inferno'', ''Defence of Sevastopol'' (1911), '' Oliver Twist'' (American version), '' Oliver Twist'' (British version), '' Richard III'', ''From the Manger to the Cross'', ''Cleopatra'' (1912), '' Quo Vadis?'' (1913), ''Cabiria'' (1914) and ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915). Description The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rollo And The Spirit Of The Woods
''Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods'' (also titled ''Rolli'', fi, Rölli ja metsänhenki) is a 2001 Finnish fantasy film directed by Olli Saarela. It is the second film based on the television series ''Rölli'', the first being '' Rölli – hirmuisia kertomuksia'' (1991). Plot Hairy and rowdy trolls called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli's peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys. Cast * Allu Tuppurainen as Rölli * Maria Järvenhelmi as Milli Menninkäinen * Peter Franzén as Lakeija * Kari Hietalahti as Riitasointu * Jussi Lampi as Iso * Kalle Holmberg as Vaakamestari * Samuli Edelmann as the elder of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amazing Tales
''A Simple Noodle Story'' (), internationally ''A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop''. is a 2009 film directed by Zhang Yimou. Described as a cross between screwball comedy and thriller, the film stars Sun Honglei and Ni Dahong in the thriller segment while comedians Xiaoshenyang and Yan Ni star in the comedic segment. A Chinese remake of the 1984 American film ''Blood Simple'', the debut of the Coen brothers, whose work Yimou lists as among his favorites, the plot transports the original film's town in Texas to a noodle shop in a small desert town in Gansu province. The film has been described as a considerable departure from the director's previous works. Premise The abusive owner of a noodle shop in the desert in China plans the murder of his adulterous wife and her lover but it goes awry after various characters' intertwined stories lead to double crosses and fatalities. Cast *Sun Honglei – Zhang *Ni Dahong – Wang *Xiaoshenyang – Li * Yan Ni – Wang's Wife Production Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rölli
Rölli (sometimes called Rollo in English language, English is a character from Finland, Finnish television portrayed by Allu Tuppurainen, Allan "Allu" Tuppurainen. The character originally appeared in segments on the children's TV show ''Pikku Kakkonen'' on YLE's Channel 2 in 1986. Original episodes were produced until 2001 and older episodes have been seen in constant reruns on the program. In these segments, Rölli would tell stories of his amazing adventures while often criticising and questioning public norm or the activities of people (especially humans). Rölli has also appeared in five feature-length films. The first, made in 1991 and titled ''Rölli - hirmuisia kertomuksia'' ("Rölli - Terrible Stories") was much truer to the TV character, whereas the 2001 ''Rollo and the Spirit of the Woods, Rölli ja Metsänhenki'' ("Rölli and the Forest Spirit") was more of a traditional fantasy/adventure film. Rölli has appeared in an animated film ''Quest for a Heart, Röllin sydä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animated Film
Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most animations are made with computer-generated imagery (CGI). Computer animation can be very detailed Computer animation#Animation methods, 3D animation, while Traditional animation#Computers and traditional animation, 2D computer animation (which may have the look of traditional animation) can be used for stylistic reasons, low bandwidth, or faster real-time renderings. Other common animation methods apply a stop motion technique to two- and three-dimensional objects like cutout animation, paper cutouts, puppets, or Clay animation, clay figures. A cartoon is an animated film, usually a short film, featuring an cartoon, exaggerated visual style. The style takes inspiration from comic strips, often featuring anthropomorphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
