CRITERION COLLECTION: WATERSHIP DOWN [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1978
• Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama
• Plot: 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.;
• Cast: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell, Terence Rigby, Roy Kinnear, Richard O'Callaghan, Denholm Elliott, Lynn Farleigh, Mary Maddox, Zero Mostel, Harry Andrews, Hannah Gordon, Nigel Hawthorne, Clifton Jones, Derek Griffiths, Michael Hordern, Joss Ackland, Michelle Price, Martin Rosen, Richard Adams, Terry Rawlings, Angela Morley, Ray Mervin, Bill Rowe, Tony Guy
• Director: Martin Rosen
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Nepenthe Productions, Watership Productions Limited, Euro-London Films, Ltd., Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie