My Childhood

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

47 min

Cast:

Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith

Quality:

HD

Director:

Bill Douglas

Release:

1972

Country:

United Kingdom

Rating:

7.2