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Grendel Grendel Grendel
- Year of completion
- 1980
- Content type
- Narrative Content
- Format
- Feature
- Genre
- Family
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Production Status
- Completed
Synopsis
An intelligent, witty animation based on John Gardener's popular novel which retells the Beowulf epic. Originally written in 600 AD, the story pits Beowulf, a southern Swedish hero against a terrible monster, Grendel. In this adaptation, as with the novel, the legend is retold from Grendel's viewpoint making his a sympathetic, philosophic monster plagued by greedy, warring, stupid creatures called men who invade his territory and his serenity.