Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total
Richard Briers
- Fiver
- (voice)
Ralph Richardson
- Chief Rabbit
- (voice)
Michael Graham Cox
- Bigwig
- (voice)
- (as Michael Graham-Cox)
John Bennett
- Capt. Holly
- (voice)
Simon Cadell
- Blackberry
- (voice)
Terence Rigby
- Silver
- (voice)
Roy Kinnear
- Pipkin
- (voice)
Richard O'Callaghan
- Dandelion
- (voice)
Denholm Elliott
- Cowslip
- (voice)
Lynn Farleigh
- Cat
- (voice)
- (as Lyn Farleigh)
Mary Maddox
- Clover
- (voice)
Zero Mostel
- Kehaar
- (voice)
Harry Andrews
- Gen. Woundwort
- (voice)
Hannah Gordon
- Hyzenthlay
- (voice)
Nigel Hawthorne
- Capt. Campion
- (voice)
- (as Nigel Hawthorn)
Clifton Jones
- Blackavar
- (voice)
Derek Griffiths
- Vervain
- (voice)
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- TriviaThe British Board of Film Classification had received complaints about this movie for over four decades after its release, due to the board's decision to classify it U (suitable for all). The BBFC admitted in 2012 that it had "received complaints about the suitability of Watership Down at U almost every year since its classification". On August 4, 2022, the film was re-rated PG after 44 years.
- GoofsIn Holly's flashback of his time in Efrafa - which occurs long before the other rabbits have even heard of Efrafa - Bigwig can be clearly seen talking with the Efrafan rabbits (this was taken from a scene later in the movie).
- Alternate versionsThe BFI restoration (2024) includes 2 animation error fixes:
- Bigwig no longer disappears then reappears on screen as the rabbits enter the shed near the cemetery.
- Hyzenthlay no longer disappears when she begins hiding behind the electricity pylon before the others travel to the farm to get the dog
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While not as good as the book itself, the movie was well done indeed. This was one of those books I lived in when I first read it, never has Richard Adams come close to what he achieved here, able to pull you the reader right down into the grass roots along with Hazel, Fiver and BigWig. And the animators did him justice...I don't have much to add here that others here haven't, save to say I enjoyed the classic voices used here a lot-from Joss Ackland as the 'Black Rabbit of Inle' to the late, much lamented Harry Andrews as Woundwort. Now THAT guy was as tough and ornery a character actor as ever I saw onscreen, and he did the brutal Woundwort character justice indeed.
Of course I recommend this-***1/2 outta ****, the book being ****.
Of course I recommend this-***1/2 outta ****, the book being ****.
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- Watership Down - Unten am Fluß
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- $21,874
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1(original aspect ratio)
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