My Childhood
1972 · Movie · 46 min. · United Kingdom
The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars - and this escape is reflected most closely at this time of his life as an eight-year-old living on the breadline with his half-brother and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
Direction Bill Douglas
Cast Stephen Archibald · Hughie Restorick · Jean Taylor Smith · Karl Fieseler · Bernard McKenna · Paul Kermack · Helena Gloag · Ann Smith · Eileen McCallum · Helen Rae · James Eccles
Screenplay Bill Douglas
Cinematography Mick Campbell
Original title My Childhood (Bill Douglas Trilogy: Part I)
7.6
458 votes (FilmAffinity)
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