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My Childhood (1972)

My Childhood (1972)

Drama
Release Date: 1972, June 5
Directors: Bill Douglas
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: BFI
Cast: Ann Smith, Stephen Archibald, Eileen McCallum, Paul Kermack, Jean Taylor Smith, Hughie Restorick, Helena Gloag, Karl Fieseler, Helen Rae, James Eccles

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.

Keywords:

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