Back ولدوا أحرارا (فيلم) Arabic ولودوا احرارا ARZ Nascuda lliure Catalan Born Free Welsh Frei geboren – Königin der Wildnis German Born Free Spanish Vabana sündinud (film) Estonian آزاد (فیلم) Persian Elsa – vapaana syntynyt Finnish Vivre libre (film, 1966) French
| Born Free | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | James Hill |
| Screenplay by | Gerald L.C. Copley |
| Based on | Born Free by Joy Adamson |
| Produced by | Sam Jaffe Paul Radin |
| Starring | Virginia McKenna Bill Travers |
| Cinematography | Kenneth Talbot |
| Edited by | Don Deacon |
| Music by | John Barry |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million[1] |
| Box office | $3.6 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2] |
Born Free is a 1966 British drama film starring the real-life couple Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as Joy and George Adamson, another real-life couple, who raised Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned lion cub, to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The film was produced by Open Road Films Ltd. and Columbia Pictures. The screenplay, written by blacklisted Hollywood writer Lester Cole (under the pseudonym "Gerald L.C. Copley"), was based upon Joy Adamson's 1960 non-fiction book Born Free. The film was directed by James Hill and produced by Sam Jaffe and Paul Radin. Born Free, and its musical score, by John Barry, as well as the title song, with lyrics by Don Black and sung by Matt Monro, won numerous awards.