Watership Down

Oct 14, 1978

1h 32m

★ 7.2

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.

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.

Genres

Adventure

Animation

Drama

Production Companies

Nepenthe Productions

Watership Productions

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Cast

Hazel (voice)

John Hurt

Fiver (voice)

Richard Briers

Bigwig (voice)

Michael Graham Cox

Captain Holly (voice)

John Bennett

Chief Rabbit (voice)

Ralph Richardson

Blackberry (voice)

Simon Cadell

Silver (voice)

Terence Rigby

Pipkin (voice)

Roy Kinnear

Dandelion (voice)

Richard O'Callaghan

Cowslip (voice)

Denholm Elliott

Cat (voice)

Lynn Farleigh

Clover (voice)

Mary Maddox

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