Movie
Babar: The Movie
Overview
Children's book authors Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's most beloved elephant comes to the big screen in this animated family tale. Elephant monarch King Babar tells the tale, that unfolds via flashback, of how a much-younger Barbar and his girlfriend Celeste save her village from the pugnacious rhinoceroses that have come to raid it.
Details
- Release date
- 1989-07-28
- Runtime
- 70 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Astral Films, Forum Distribution, Nelvana, Ellipse Programme, The Clifford Ross Company
- Country
- Canada, France
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Gordon Pinsent as King Babar
- Elizabeth Hanna as Queen Celeste / The Lady
- Lisa Yamanaka as Isabelle
- Marsha Moreau as Flora
- Bobby Becken as Pom
- Amos Crawley as Alexander
- Gavin Magrath as Boy Babar
- Sarah Polley as Young Celeste
- Charles Kerr as Rataxes / Rhino Guards
- Ray Landry as Croc
Crew
- Alan Bunce - Director
- Peter Sauder - Screenplay
- Raymond Jafelice - Screenplay
- J.D. Smith - Screenplay
- John de Klein - Screenplay
- Alan Bunce - Screenplay
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