War of the Birds

War of the Birds
Danish DVD cover
Directed by	Jannik Hastrup
Produced by	Marie Bro (executive producer) Per Holst (producer)
Written by	Bent Haller
Starring	Sofie Bredesen Vigga Bro Lisbet Dahl Pernille Hansen Anne Marie Helger Lasse Jonsson Tine Karrebæk Tommy Kenter Per Tønnes Nielsen Per Pallesen Claus Ryskjær Helle Ryslinge Ove Sprogøe Kasper Fønns Stilling Emil Tarding Barbara Topsøe-Rothenborg
Music by	Fuzzy Jacob Groth Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Cinematography	Jakob Koch
Production company	Dansk Tegnefilm
Release date	28 September 1990
Running time	68 minutes
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish
Budget	12 million DKK(Around 2 million USD/EUR currently)

War of the Birds (Danish: Fuglekrigen i Kanøfleskoven) is a Danish animated movie directed by Jannik Hastrup in 1990, about two orphan birds, Oliver and Olivia, who fight against an evil vulture with the help of two mice. It is based on a children's book of the same name from Bent Hallers.

In a forest lives a community of birds who live peacefully, including a pair of sparrows residing happily in a nest awaiting the hatching of their two eggs. A storm rolls in and a white dove warns the couple about Fagin, a sinister vulture who kills every bird in his path. Fagin comes, and the male sparrow bravely attempts to protect his family by distracting the vulture and is pursued but is killed. The female shares her mate's fate, and the struggle caused the two eggs to fall out the nest with only one surviving and landing near a hole in the tree which is owned by Walter, an owl. Betty, a bluebird, comes and decides to adopt the egg. Days and hours later, the egg hatches and Betty names him Oliver. While Betty is away, Walter tells Oliver a story about Betty saving a sparrow named Olivia from a cat and adopting her. Betty introduces Olivia to Oliver, both of them quickly becoming friends. Betty goes away again, and Oliver and Olivia wander off and befriend two orphaned mice named Fredrick and Ingolf. They play but Ingolf, who dreams of flying like a bird, falls into a stream and is saved by the group. The Dove appears and warns them about Fagin, prompting them to run and hide. Oliver, who spots Fagin, becomes too scared to move, but Olivia saves him and hide in a can. Fagin corners the young bird and nearly kills them, but is chased away by a male orthonologist human and his dog. Betty finds them and scolds them for wandering off and while Betty and Olivia leave, Oliver learns to fly with the help of Olivia.

Olivia starts to have a crush on Oliver. The two wander off again to a nearby city where they eat at a small market which the cat is actually at. The cat attacks Olivia who distracts it again other local birds in the city watch Olivia who is pursued by the cat and is outwitted again when the cat crashes into a box angering the owner of the fruit stand and ridiculing the cat in front of the other birds. The birds go back to the forest where the Dove tells Oliver and Olivia about Fagin, Upon realizing this Oliver finds out his real parents where killed by Fagin and decides to fight him. First he tries to gather several birds to fight Fagin but are too frightened to fight Fagin. Oliver, feeling left out, meets again with Armstrong the seagull who tells him to come to his party tonight. Oliver comes back to the nest where Olivia teases him into falling in love with her. Walter goes out, and during the night, Oliver and Olivia sneak off to Arrmstrong`s party. Armstrong sings a song about not being afraid of Fagin with Walter being there with a bunch of chickens. Oliver gains trust and plans to outwit Fagin with a trap.