My Childhood
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.
- Director: Bill Douglas
- Genre: Drama
- Actors: Bernard McKenna, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler, Stephen Archibald
