Watership Down
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces. 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, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- New interview with director Martin Rosen
- New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about the film’s importance in animation history
- Picture-in-picture storyboards for the entire film
- Defining a Style, a 2005 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones
New cover by F. Ron Miller
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack
- New interview with director Martin Rosen
- New interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro about the film’s importance in animation history
- Picture-in-picture storyboards for the entire film
- Defining a Style, a 2005 featurette about the film’s aesthetic
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by comic book writer Gerard Jones
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- John Hurt
- Hazel
- Richard Briers
- Fiver
- Michael Graham-Cox
- Bigwig
- John Bennett
- Captain Holly
- Ralph Richardson
- Chief Rabbit
- Simon Cadell
- Blackberry
- Terence Rigby
- Silver
- Roy Kinnear
- Pipkin
- Richard O’Callaghan
- Dandelion
- Denholm Elliott
- Cowslip
- Lyn Farleigh
- Cat
- Mary Maddox
- Clover
- Zero Mostel
- Kehaar
- Harry Andrews
- General Woundwort
- Hannah Gordon
- Hyzenthlay
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Captain Campion
- Clifton Jones
- Blackavar
- Derek Griffiths
- Vervain
- Michael Hordern
- Frith
- Joss Ackland
- Black Rabbit
- Michelle Price
- Lucy
Credits
- Director
- Martin Rosen
- Written for the screen by
- Martin Rosen
- Produced by
- Martin Rosen
- Animation director
- Tony Guy
- Animation supervisor
- Philip Duncan
- Edited by
- Terry Rawlings
- “Bright Eyes” composed by
- Mike Batt
- Sung by
- Art Garfunkel
- Incidental music
- Malcolm Williamson
- Musical director
- Marcus Dods
- Music composed and arranged by
- Angela Morley
- Production manager
- Dennis Gardiner
- Production coordinator
- Philip Alton
- Layout artists
- Gordon Harrison
- Layout artists
- Peter See
- Layout artists
- Ted Pettengell
- Senior animators
- Arthur Humberstone
- Senior animators
- George Jackson
- Senior animators
- Tony Guy
- Senior animators
- Philip Duncan
- Special sequence design
- Luciana Arrighi
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Edition introduction to Watership Down
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