My Childhood

1972 | 47 minutes | 6.9 ★ (44)

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.

  • Release Date

    05 June 1972

  • DirectingBill Douglas
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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