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Babar: King of the Elephants

Babar: King of the Elephants

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 26, 1999

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Family, Animation

User Score

60%

Original Title

Babar: King of the Elephants

Production Companies

Nelvana, Home Made Movies, TV-Loonland, The Clifford Ross Company, Alliance Atlantis

Director

Raymond Jafelice

Description

Babar is a young elephant in the great forest. Whilst out with his mother a hunter kills his mother and he flees to escape the same fate. He eventually finds himself in a human city and experiences the many differences between city and forest life. Treated as an outsider he is taken in by an elderly woman, dressed in fancy suits, taught to write and count and is brought up in human culture.