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Kes
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- Summary
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A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is a fifteen-year-old miner's son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.
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- Creator
- Woodfall Films presents a Kestrel Films production ; adapted by Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett ; directed by Ken Loach ; produced by Tony Garnett
- Included Titles
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- South Bank show (Television program)
- Cathy come home (Television program)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Loach, Ken, 1936- director
- Garnett, Tony, producer
- Bradley, David, 1953- actor
- Welland, Colin, actor
- Perrie, Lynne, 1931-2006, actor
- Fletcher, Freddie, actor
- Glover, Brian, 1934-1997, actor
- Bowes, Bob, actor
- Cameron, John, 1944- composer
- Hines, Barry, 1939- Kestrel for a knave
- Woodfall Film Productions
- Kestrel Films (Firm)
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Publication
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- Blu-ray edition
- [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
- ISBNs
- 9781604654110, 1604654112
- OCLC
- ocn720059854
- Credits
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- David Bradley, Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes
- Music, John Cameron ; photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Roy Watts
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
- From the book "A kestrel for a knave" by Barry Hines.
- Special features: disc 1: newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Ken Loach and director of photography Chris Menges, with the filmmaker's original production soundtrack ; alternate, internationally released soundtrack, with postsync dialogue ; original theatrical trailer; Making "Kes," a new documentary featuring Loach, Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley ; The Southbank show: "Ken Loach," a 1993 profile ; Cathy come home (1966), an early television feature by Loach, with an afterword by film writer Graham Fuller.
- Blu-ray Disc; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono; requires Blu-ray player.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Subjects
- Hines, Barry, 1939- -- Film adaptations.
- Coal mines and mining -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama.
- Working class -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama.
- Teenage boys -- England -- Barnsley (South Yorkshire) -- Drama.
- Kestrels -- Drama.
- Falconry -- Drama.
- Wildlife rehabilitation -- Drama.