My Childhood

Status: Released

Runtime: 47

Release Date: 05/06/1972

Origin Language: en

Origin Country: GB

Languages: English

Production: BFI

Countries: United Kingdom

Budget: 0

Revenue: 0 (0)

Drama

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.