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My Childhood
1972 6.9 (46 votes) 0h 47m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
BFI

My Childhood

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Geoffrey Evans

Writer: Bill Douglas

Director: Bill Douglas

Top Cast

Stephen Archibald
Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick
Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith
Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Karl Fieseler

Helmuth

Bernard McKenna
Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father

Paul Kermack
Paul Kermack

Jamie's father

Helena Gloag
Helena Gloag

Father's mother

Ann Smith

Jamie's mother

Videos

Bill Douglas Trilogy-trailer.mp4

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