Beowulf & Grendel (2005)

Directed by

Sturla Gunnarsson

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, action film, adventure film, medieval film, sword and sorcery film

Country

Iceland, United Kingdom, Canada

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

R

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 254 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The old epic hero Beowulf comes to Denmark to fight a troll-like creature named Grendel who is terrorizing King Hrothgar's mead hall. This version focuses on the monster as a complex being and the moral ambiguities of the conflict.

atmosphericgrimbroodingdeliberatevisceralrawmeditativemoody

What happens

Beowulf & Grendel is a 2005 Canadian-Icelandic fantasy adventure film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson, loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. It stars Gerard Butler as Beowulf, Stellan Skarsgård as Hrothgar, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as Grendel and Sarah Polley as the witch Selma. The screenplay was written by Andrew Rai Berzins. The soundtrack was composed by Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson. The film was a cooperative effort among Eurasia Motion Pictures (Canada), Spice Factory (UK), and Bjolfskvida (Iceland), and it was filmed in Iceland. In 2006, a documentary of the difficult making of Beowulf & Grendel, called Wrath of Gods, was released and went on to win six film awards in Europe and the U.S. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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