Kes

Kes (1970)

They beat him. They deprived him. They ridiculed him. They broke his heart. But they couldn’t break his spirit.

TMDb

7.5

03/04/1970 • 1h 51m
original-title

Kes

status

Released

production-companies

Woodfall Film Productions

Kestrel Films

original-language

English

budget

-

revenue

-

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.

director
production-countries

United Kingdom

spoken-languages

English

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