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 ,

Country: United Kingdom ,

Production Companies: BFI,

Type: movie

Duration: 0h 47m

Quality: HD

Release: 1972-06-05

Rating: 6.9