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Released
1989 · FILM

Babar: The Movie

A feature-length adventure that's fit for a king!

Directed by
Runtime
70 min
AdventureAnimationFamily

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Scored by Milan KymlickaDesigned by Charles E Bastien

Box Office

1989 · Box office

Grossed $1.3M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$1.3M

Worldwide gross$1.3M

Opening weekend: $297K 23% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $584K45% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 510 theaters

Also known as

  • Babar – Der Filmde
  • Le Triomphe de Babarfr

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