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Kes (1970)
Directed by Ken Loach
“They beat him. They deprived him. They ridiculed him. They broke his heart. But they couldn’t break his spirit.”
Drama · 1h 51m
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
Cast
David Bradley
Freddie Fletcher
Lynne Perrie
Colin Welland
Brian Glover
Bernard Atha
Crew
- Director
- Ken Loach
- Screenplay
- Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
- Novel
- Barry Hines
- Director of Photography
- Chris Menges
- Original Music Composer
- John Cameron
- Editor
- Roy Watts
- Producer
- Tony Garnett
Details
- Release date
- 1970-04-03
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Woodfall Film Productions, Kestrel Films