Kes
England
1969, Color, English; Turkish captioned, 112 dk
1971 BAFTA Awards; Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, Best Supporting Actor 1971 Writer’s Guild of Great Britain; Best British Screenplay 1970 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Crystal Globe
Director: Ken Loach
Screenplay: Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
Cinematography: Chris Menges
Editing: Roy Watts
Music: John Cameron
Producer: Tony Garnett
Production: Kestrel Films, Woodfall Film Productions
Cast: David Bradley, Brian Glover, Freddie Fletcher, Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie
Synopsis
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 Mr. Farthing and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, until tragedy strikes.
Ken Loach
Born in 1936, the British director, with a sixty-year career which he now plans to retire, has put his name among the legendary creators of film history. After completing his law studies at Oxford, he began to work in a repertory theatre. From the mid-1960s onwards, he made television films that allowed him to step onto the big screen. One of these films, "Cathy Come Home", which he wrote and directed and which was aired in 1966, made him famous in the United Kingdom with its success. Then, he made an international acclaim with his first feature film "Poor Cow" and "Kes" which is considered one of the most important masterpieces of British cinema today. Over the years, he won numerous awards for his films. He has won the Palme d'Or the biggest prize of the Cannes Film Festival, twice and is one of the few artists in the history of the festival to have achieved this success. Currently, the 87-year-old director is planning to end his career with “The Old Oak” which is also competed at Cannes this year.
