Watership Down (film)

Watership Down
Watership Down
	British theatrical release poster
Directed by	Martin Rosen;
Written by	Martin Rosen
Based on	Watership Down; by Richard Adams
Produced by	Martin Rosen
Starring	John Hurt; Richard Briers; Michael Graham Cox; Simon Cadell; Harry Andrews; Zero Mostel;
Narrated by	Michael Hordern
Edited by	Terry Rawlings
Music by	Angela Morley; Malcolm Williamson;
Production; company	Nepenthe Productions
Distributed by	Cinema International Corporation; Nepenthe Films;
Release dates	14 October 1978 (Sweden); 19 October 1978 (United Kingdom);
Running time	102 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$2.4 million
Box office	$3.5 million (US and Canada distributor rentals)

Watership Down is a 1978 British animated adventure-drama film, written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams. It features the voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne and Roy Kinnear, among others, and was the last film work of Zero Mostel, as the voice of Kehaar the gull.

It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions and was distributed by Cinema International Corporation in the United Kingdom. Released on 19 October 1978, the film was an immediate success and it became the sixth-most popular film of 1979 at the UK box office.