After a Lifetime

After a Lifetime

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Jul 18, 1971

Runtime

1h 11m

Genres

Drama, TV Movie

Original Title

After a Lifetime

Production Companies

Kestrel Films

Director

Ken Loach

Description

Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.