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Babar "La cité des éléphants"
Babar "The City of the Elephants"

  1. Overview
  2. Fact Sheet

“Babar tells his children how, a long, long time ago, when he was only the queen Celeste's fiancé, he got his mother-in-law to be out of the clutches of horrible rhinoceroses...” (B. Génin).

The film

  • Film identity

    Original title: Babar "La cité des éléphants"

    Directed by: Laura SHEPHERD, Gaëtan BRIZZI, Paul BRIZZI

    Country: France, Canada

    Year of production: 1989

    Running time: 26 min × 26 episodes

  • Technique

    Category:

    Techniques used: drawing on cels

    Process: Colour

  • Credits

    Directed by: Laura SHEPHERD, Gaëtan BRIZZI, Paul BRIZZI

    Production: ELLIPSE PROGRAMME

    Based on: "L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant", Jean de Brunhoff (1931)

    Script: Peter Sauder

    Graphics: Dan Smith

    Animation: Brizzi Films, Nelvana

    Music: Milan Kymkicka

    Voice: Christian Halers, Jean-Pierre Darras, Jean-Paul Farre