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'''''Kes''''' ([[1969 in film|1969]]) is a [[Cinema of the United Kingdom|British film]] from [[1969 in film|1969]] by director [[Ken Loach]] and producer [[Tony Garnett]]. Set in [[Barnsley]], the film contains broad [[Yorkshire]] dialect, on a level that is now dying out across even the mining parts of the county.

The film focuses on '''Billy Casper''', who has little hope in life beyond becoming a [[coal miner]] and is bullied both at home and at school. He is mischievous himself -, often being in trouble at school for fighting and misbehaving. He finds an outlet in life through training a [[Kestrel (bird)|kestrel]] that he tooktakes from a nest on a farm. There is a strong concentration on [[falconry]] and respect for the bird and that falconry isn'tis not about taming the bird or making it do tricks.

The novel on which the film is based, ''[[A Kestrel for a Knave]]'' was written by [[Barry Hines]] in [[1968]]. Both the film and the book are slow-moving and provide an authentic portrait of life in the mining areas of Yorkshire around the time.

[[Wildlife]] [[conservationists]] have waged campaigns against this film, saying that it encouraged children and teenagers who had not had training in [[falconry]], to take [[kestrel]]skestrels from the wild and to try to tame them. In fact the film didndoes ''not''t encourage this and stressed the message that it was wrong and that falconry wasn'twas not about ''taming'' birds.

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''Life after Kes'' is the complete story surrounding Ken Loach’s gritty northern classic ''Kes''. It is extensively researched and features interviews, by the author, from the cast, crew and extras, including Ken Loach, Barry Hines, [[Tony Garnett]], David Bradley, [[Colin Welland]], [[Brian Glover]], [[Chris Menges]], John Cameron and many more.

==External links==

* {{imdb title|id=0064541|title=Kes}}

*[http://www.lifeafterkes.co.uk Life After Kes - An Anthology of the Film ''Kes'']

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