My Childhood

My Childhood — Plot

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.

• Release date
• June 5, 1972
• Runtime
• 47 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Bill Douglas

My Childhood — Cast

Stephen Archibald Jamie Hughie Restorick Tommy Jean Taylor Smith Grandmother

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Karl Fieseler Helmuth Bernard McKenna Tommy's father Paul Kermack Jamie's father Helena Gloag Father's mother

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Ann Smith Jamie's mother