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A book based on Alexander Stitt's animated film Grendel Grendel Grendel, itself based on American author John Gardner's novel Grendel.
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Grendel Grendel Grendel
( dir. Alexander Stitt
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Melbourne
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Victorian Film Corporation
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1981
Z1440587
1981
single work
film/TV
children's
fantasy
'An intelligent, witty animation based on John Gardner's popular novel Grendel, 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.'
Source: Screen Australia. (Sighted: 29/6/2012)
The film was Australia's second full-length animated feature, after 1972's Marco Polo Junior versus the Red Dragon.
