Does anyone know the name of a movie from the 80's or late 70's where there is a floating head with a boy hanging from a long white/gray beard. He lived in an apartment and didn't have a very good home life. This is where the foating head came and took him away to the other land. At the end the "bad guy's" heart turned to stone. There is no animation in the movie at all.

Could it be Mio min Mio (1987) (http://amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0093543/?) ?

It was based on a book by Astrid Lindgren: Mio, My Son - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mio,_my_Mio)