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.

• DirectorAlan Bunce
• Release28 July 1989
• Genre
  Adventure / Animation
• Duration1h 10m
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• Rate
  

  5.8
  46 reviews
• Productions

  Astral Films, Forum Distribution, Nelvana, Ellipse Programme, The Clifford Ross Company