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Watership Down

Watership Down

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and when they catch you, they will kill you... but first they must catch you.

19787.21h 32m

Overview

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

Directed by Martin Rosen
Written by Richard Adams, Martin Rosen, John Hubley
Produced by Martin Rosen
Box OfficeBudget: $1.0MRevenue: $3.7M

Top Cast

John Hurt

John Hurt

Hazel (voice)

Richard Briers

Richard Briers

Fiver (voice)

Michael Graham Cox

Michael Graham Cox

Bigwig (voice)

John Bennett

John Bennett

Captain Holly (voice)

Ralph Richardson

Ralph Richardson

Chief Rabbit (voice)

Simon Cadell

Simon Cadell

Blackberry (voice)

Terence Rigby

Terence Rigby

Silver (voice)

Roy Kinnear

Roy Kinnear

Pipkin (voice)

Richard O'Callaghan

Richard O'Callaghan

Dandelion (voice)

Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

Cowslip (voice)

Themes & Keywords

based on novel or bookgoretrapanthropomorphismseagullbased on children's bookrabbitruntriver crossingadult animationjourneymythberkshirerabbits

About Watership Down

Watership Down is a adventure, animation, drama film released in 1978 exploring themes of based on novel or book, gore, trap, anthropomorphism, seagull, based on children's book. Directed by Martin Rosen, it stars John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox. When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

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