My Childhood

(1972)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 54 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1972

Runtime: 47 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Bill Douglas

Cast: Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler, Bernard McKenna, Paul Kermack, Helena Gloag, Ann Smith, Eileen McCallum, Helen Rae

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.