My Childhood (1972)
My Childhood (1972)
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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.
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Cast & Crew.

Stephen Archibald
Jamie

Hughie Restorick
Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother

Karl Fieseler
Helmuth

Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father

Paul Kermack
Jamie's father

Helena Gloag
Father's mother

Ann Smith
Jamie's mother

Eileen McCallum
Nurse

Helen Rae
Bus conductress

James Eccles
Man singing

Geoffrey Evans
Producer

Bill Douglas
Writer / Director

Mick Campbell
Cinematography

Brand Thumim
Editor
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
scotland
coming of age
autobiographical
child neglect
animal cruelty
1940s
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