Product Details

• Actors: Gerard Butler, Sturla Gunnarsson
• Directors: Jon Gustafsson
• Producers: Gerard Butler, Karolina Lewicka, Jon Armann Steinsson
• Subtitles: English, Icelandic, Polish
• Region: All Regions
• Rating: Unrated
• Run Time: 192 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 9979702206
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #59,937 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
This is the Icelandic version of Wrath of Gods starring Gerard Butler. Winner of 6 international film festival awards, this entertaining documentary tells the dramatic story behind the making of the epic movie Beowulf & Grendel, starring Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley and Ingvar Sigurdsson. When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson and his cast and crew, including Gerard Butler and Stellan Skarsgård, set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel in 2004, they expected the usual complications involved in making a major motion picture. What they encountered was a ruthless Icelandic winter on a foreboding landscape, financing complications and a bizarre run of bad luck that led some of them to believe they were in an epic battle with the Norse gods themselves. Filmmaker Jon Gustafsson was along for the ride. Hired to play one of Beowulfs warriors he is on the set with his camera as the crew battles hurricane force winds and he is in the back room as the producers scramble to shore up a collapsing deal, creating an intimate portrait of filmmakers fighting the odds in pursuit of a vision. If you liked "Lost in la Mancha" or "Burden of Dreams" you will probably like this one. DVD Special Features: 2 hours of bonus features, 1 hour exclusive interview with Gerard Butler, exclusive interviews with producers of Beowulf & Grendel, additional & extended scenes, Subtitles: Icelandic, English, Polish.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you liked the movie..., December 6, 2008

By	B. Tackett "Film lover" - See all my reviews

Finally got to see the documentary about the making of Beowulf & Grendel. I will admit that since I'm a longtime fan of Gerard Butler I really liked the movie and as a fan of behind the scenes information about movies I really liked Wrath of Gods. The documentary runs one hour and eleven minutes. It has about half an hour of deleted/extended scenes and about an hour and a half of interviews, an hour of which is a terrific interview with the star Gerard Butler.
The only real problem I found was that about halfway through the English subtitles started to give out. There were at least two, maybe three places where the subtitles wouldn't show. The movie was made by in Icelandic and you need to turn the subtitles on to understand the voice over of the documentarians.
Overall it is a very good, very enjoyable film, especially if you are any kind of fan of actor Gerard Butler.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Rating the "Wrath", December 28, 2008

By	Sam Marie "Sam" (NY) - See all my reviews

It was really interesting watching all they went through to make this movie. From chasing down the "money people" to chasing down movie props and tents, is was pretty interesting to see the goings-on behind the camera. I love watching all the behind the scenes moments and this was a neat one to watch.

5.0 out of 5 stars Giving everything for a movie, June 19, 2009

By	Andrea Heidenreich "ahei" (Uelzen, Germany (near Hamburg)) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

No money, no time, bad weather on a heavy location. People who did like the movie Beowulf & Grendel have to take a look at this great documentation. All other movie lovers will be astound, what the people around the movie business have to face to make their dream come true.
The wonderful isle of Iceland schowed her roughest face to the director, the actors and alle other people of the staff. Take a look and you will love it.