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With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt (The Elephant Man), Ralph Richardson (The Fallen Idol), Richard Briers (Much Ado About Nothing), and Denholm Elliott (Raiders of the Lost Ark), Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
Product Details
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson
Directors: Martin Rosen
Format: Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)
DVD Release Date: February 24, 2015
Run Time: 92 minutes
Additional Features
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New interview with director Martin Rosen
• New appreciation of the film by director Guillermo del Toro
• Picture-in-picture storyboard for the entire film
• Defining a Style, a 2008 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones
Cast & Crew
John Hurt Voice Only
Richard Briers Voice Only
Michael Graham Cox Voice Only
John Bennett Voice Only
Simon Cadell Voice Only
Roy Kinnear Voice Only
Richard O'Callaghan Voice Only
Terence Rigby Voice Only
Ralph Richardson Voice Only
Denholm Elliott Voice Only
Zero Mostel Voice Only
Mary Maddox Voice Only
Hannah Gordon Voice Only
Lyn Farleigh Voice Only
Harry Andrews Voice Only
Nigel Hawthorne Voice Only
Joss Ackland Voice Only
Clifton James Voice Only
Michael Hordern Voice Only
Derek Griffiths Voice Only
Technical Credits
Martin Rosen Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Mike Batt Songwriter
Marcus Dods Musical Direction/Supervision
Angela Morley Score Composer
Terry Rawlings Editor
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