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Grendel (film)

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Grendel is a 2007 American action-fantasy television film directed by Nick Lyon and very loosely based on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. [1]

25 relations: Action film, Anonymous work, Asen Blatechki, Ben Cross, Beowulf, Beowulf (hero), Chris Bruno, Chuck Hittinger, Epic poetry, Fantasy film, Finn (Frisian), Grendel, Grendel's mother, Hrothgar, Marina Sirtis, Nathan Furst, Nick Lyon, Old English, Phillip J. Roth, Raicho Vasilev, Syfy, Television film, Unferð, Universal Pictures, Wealhþeow.

Action film

Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases.

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Anonymous work

Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author.

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Asen Blatechki

Assen Emilov Blatechki (Асен Емилов Блатечки; born 22 March 1971) is a Bulgarian actor.

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Ben Cross

Ben Cross (born Harry Bernard Cross; 16 December 1947) is an English stage and film actor, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

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Beowulf

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.

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Beowulf (hero)

Beowulf (Old English: Bēoƿulf) is a legendary Geatish hero in the epic poem named after him, one of the oldest surviving pieces of literature in the English language.

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Chris Bruno

Christopher Malcolm Bruno (born March 15, 1966) is an American film and television actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sheriff Walt Bannerman on the USA Network television series The Dead Zone.

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Chuck Hittinger

Chuck Hittinger (born 1983) is an American actor.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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Fantasy film

Fantasy films are films that belong to the fantasy genre with fantastic themes, usually magic, supernatural events, mythology, folklore, or exotic fantasy worlds.

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Finn (Frisian)

Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian king.

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Grendel

Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf (AD 700–1000).

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Grendel's mother

Grendel's mother (Grendles mōðor) is one of three antagonists in the anonymous Old English poem Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD).

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Hrothgar

Hrothgar (Hrōðgār; Hróarr) was a legendary Danish king living in the early 6th century.

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Marina Sirtis

Marina Sirtis (born 29 March 1955) is a British-American actress.

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Nathan Furst

Nathan Furst (born July 4, 1978) is an American television and film composer.

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Nick Lyon

Nick Lyon (born April 25, 1970) is a Los Angeles-based film director and screenwriter.

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Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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Phillip J. Roth

Phillip J. Roth (born June 10, 1959) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for making low-budget films.

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Raicho Vasilev

Raicho Vasilev (Райчо Василев) is a Bulgarian stunt/actor best known for his role Gladiator Gnaeus on the TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and its prequel Spartacus: Gods of the Arena.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Television film

A television film (also known as a TV movie, TV film, television movie, telefilm, telemovie, made-for-television movie, made-for-television film, direct-to-TV movie, direct-to-TV film, movie of the week, feature-length drama, single drama and original movie) is a feature-length motion picture that is produced for, and originally distributed by or to, a television network, in contrast to theatrical films, which are made explicitly for initial showing in movie theaters.

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Unferð

In the Old English epic poem Beowulf, Unferth or Hunferth is a thegn (a retainer, servant) of the Danish lord Hrothgar.

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Universal Pictures

Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.

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Wealhþeow

Wealhþēow (also rendered Wealhtheow or Wealthow) is a queen of the Danes in the Old English poem, Beowulf, first introduced in line 612.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel_(film)

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