Beowulf & Grendel

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Beowulf & Grendel
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R,1hr 42min
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2005
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Union Station Media
Synopsis: One of the oldest epic poems in the English language gets a robust visual interpretation in this historical epic shot on location in Iceland. Hrothgar (Stellan Skarsgård) is a Danish king who murders a troll that has been terrorizing his countryside. But Hrothgar spares the life of the troll's strange young son, who with the passage of years grows to become Grendel (Ingvar Sigurdsson), a fearsome warrior intent upon avenging his father's death. As Grendel begins his slaughter of the king's closest ... Full Synopsis
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A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga. Full Review
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