The Black Cauldron is a 1985 American animated dark fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 25th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, it is loosely based on the first two books in The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, a series of five novels that are, in turn, based on Welsh mythology.
Set in the mythical land of Prydain during the dark ages, the film centers on the evil Horned King who hopes to secure an ancient magical cauldron that will aid him in his desire to conquer the world. He is opposed by a young pig keeper named Taran, the young princess Eilonwy, the bard Fflewddur Fflam, and a wild creature named Gurgi who seek to prevent him from ruling the world by destroying the cauldron.
The film is directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich, who had directed Disney's previous animated film The Fox and the Hound in 1981, the final Disney animated film to be recorded in RCA Photophone. It features the voices of Grant Bardsley, Susan Sheridan, Freddie Jones, Nigel Hawthorne, John Byner, and John Hurt. It was the first Disney animated film to receive a PG rating as well as the first Disney animated film to feature computer-generated imagery. The film was released theatrically by Buena Vista Distribution on July 24, 1985. Disney released the film for the first time on home video in 1998.
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| Image | Character | USA | Mex | Jap | Bra | Ger | Fra | Ita | Pol | Neth | Hun | Swe | Fin | Nor | Den | Spa(Catalan) | Por | Fra(1998) | Isr | Egyp |
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Taran | Grant Bardsley | Raúl Aldana | Kikuchi Hidehiro | Flávio Villa Verde | Frank Schaff | Thierry Bourdon | Giorgio Borghetti | Jan Dziewulski | Vincent Croiset | Heisz Krisztián | Nick Atkinson | Arttu Wiskari | Eirik Espolin Johnson | Mikkel Weyde | Hernan Fernández | André Raimundo | Christophe Lemoine | Yehonatan Magon | Ziad Anwar |
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Princess Eilonwy | Susan Sheridan | Diana Santos | Miina Tominaga | Marisa Leal | Katja Primel | Barbara Tissier | Loredana Nicosia | Maja Kwiatkowska | Nathalie Wijers | Czető Zsanett | Therese Reuterswärd | Hanna Hietala | Sarah MacDonaldBerge | Amalie Dollerup | Isabel Valls | Carla García | Chantal Macé | Lauren Savir | Inas Tawfiq |
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Dallben | Freddie Jones | Esteban Siller | Kazuo Kumakura | Orlando Drummond | HeinzTheo Branding | Jacques Deschamps | Giuseppe Rinaldi | Zbigniew Konopka | Peter Aryans | Szokolay Ottó | Håkan Mohede | Esa Saario | Knut Risan | Henning Moritzen | José Antequera | Rui Mendes | Philippe Dumat | Yehuda Efroni | Mo'men ElBardisi |
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Fflewddur Fflam | Nigel Hawthorne | Luis Bayardo | Sanji Hase | Isaac Bardavid | Hermann Ebeling | Serge Lhorca | Gianni Williams | Miłogost Reczek | Luc Lutz | Kassai Károly | Hans Lindgren | Seppo Mäki | Helge Reiss | Peter Zhelder | Ramon Puig | Carlos VieiradeAlmeida | Pierre Baton | Ami Mandelman | Lofty Labib |
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Gurgi | John Byner | Héctor Lee | Tadashi Yamazaki | Mário JorgedeAndrade | Wolfgang Ziffer | Roger Carel | Marco Bresciani | Zbigniew Suszyński | Henk Votel | Pusztaszeri Kornél | Andreas Nilsson | Jukka Rasila | Aksel Hennie | Søren Ulrichs | Francesc Figuerola | Carlos Freixo | Éric Métayer | Michal Mukhtar | Shihab Ibrahim |
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The HornedKing | John Hurt | Blas García | Shôzô Iizuka | Garcia Neto | Joachim Kemmer | Jean Violette | Paolo Poiret | Robert Tondera | Coen Flink | Faragó András | Kenneth Milldoff | Heikki Sankari | Erik Hivju | Stig Hoffmeyer | Josep María Ullod | Carlos Paulo | Bernard Tiphaine | Ohad Shachar | DiyaaAbdel Khaleq |
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Creeper | Phil Fondacaro | Salvador Nájar | Chikao Ôtsuka | Henrique Ogalla | Roger Carel | Carlo Reali | Lars Steinar Sørbø | Jaume Villanueva | Paulo Oom | Edgar Givry | Shimon Cohen | ||||||||
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King Eidilleg | Arthur Malet | Jesús Colín | Ichirô Nagai | Philippe Dumat | Wojciech Paszkowski | Eric van Ingen | László Versényi | Veikko Honkanen | Fernando Gomes | Roger Carel | |||||||||
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Orddu | Eda Reiss Merin | Rosario MuñozLedo | Makino Kazuko | Neyda Rodrigues | Bettina Schön | Perrette Pradier | Gabriella Genta | Ewa Dałkowska | Tonny Huurdeman | Szabó Éva | Gizela Rasch | Inkeri Wallenius | Susanne Fuhr | Margrethe Koytu | Rita Alagão | Perrette Pradier | Esti Kosovicki | Zainab Mubarak | |
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Orwen | Adele MalisMorey | Nancy MacKenzie | Ōta Yoshiko | Sônia Ferreira | Almut Eggert | Jane Val | Germana Dominici | Katarzyna Tatarak | Adèle Bloemendaal | Némedi Mari | Lena Ericsson | Titta Jokinen | Inger Teien | Anna Reumert | Teresa Manresa | Isabel Ribas | Marie Vincent | Orna Katz | MarwaAbdel Ghaffar |
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Ogoch | Billie Hayes | Ángela Villanueva | Reiko Seno | Glória Ladany | Maria Axt | Béatrice Delfe | Paola Giannetti | Barbara Zielińska | Carry Tefsen | Illyés Mari | Cecilia Hjalmarsson | MaijaLiisa Peuhu | Turid Balke | Michelle BjørnAndersen | Ana Maria Camps | Luísa Salgueiro | Colette Venhard | Shafrira Zakai | |
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Doli | John Byner | Esteban Siller | Ryûji Saikachi | Nelson Batista | Guy Piérauld | Gigi Angelillo | Tomasz Bednarek | Aarre Karén | Jordi Vilaseca | Octávio Matos | Guy Piérauld | Albert Cohen | |||||||
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Fair Folk Boy 1 | Lindsay Rich | Régine Teyssot | Marine Boiron | ||||||||||||||||
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Fair Folk Boy 2 | Brandon Call | Oberdan Júnior | Jackie Berger | ||||||||||||||||
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Fair Folk Girl | Gregory Levinson | Vanessa Garcel | Adriana Torres | ||||||||||||||||
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Henchman 1 | Wayne Allwine | Yamil Atala | |||||||||||||||||
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Henchman 2 | Peter Renaday | Francisco Colmenero | |||||||||||||||||
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Henchman 3 | James Almanzar | Eduardo Borja | |||||||||||||||||
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Henchman 4 | Steve Hale | ||||||||||||||||||
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Henchman 5 | Phil Nibbelink | Carlos Segundo | |||||||||||||||||
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Voice in Dream | Eduardo Liñán | ||||||||||||||||||
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Narrator | John Huston | Carlos Petrel | Márcio Seixas | Serge Sauvion | Marek Barbasiewicz | Dan Bratt | Esa Saario | Josep Maria Ullod | José Nobre | Denis Savignat | Micha Uzin-Salian |