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My Childhood (1972)

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Drama / 47 min / NR

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

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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 Ann Smith Jamie's mother