Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)

Directed by

Alex Stitt

Genre

medieval film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.6 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This animated film retells the Old English poem Beowulf from the monster Grendel's perspective. Grendel is both a thinking creature and a violent attacker who terrorizes a Danish mead hall.

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What happens

Grendel Grendel Grendel is a 1981 Australian animated film written, directed and designed by Alexander Stitt and starring Peter Ustinov. It was based on John Gardner's novel Grendel. The music was composed and conducted by Bruce Smeaton and has been released on the 1M1 Records label. Like Gardner's novel, the film is a retelling of part of the epic poem Beowulf from the monster Grendel's point of view. Grendel (voiced by Ustinov) is by turns a thoughtful and contemplative character and a rampaging monster who attacks the mead hall of an early Danish kingdom, biting the head off of one would-be defender. This was the second full-length fully animated film ever made in Australia (coming after 1972's Marco Polo Junior Versus the Red Dragon). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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