My Childhood — Official Trailer

Synopsis

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.

Cast & Crew

Directed by Bill Douglas

• Stephen Archibald
  as Jamie
• Hughie Restorick
  as Tommy
• Jean Taylor Smith
  as Grandmother
• Karl Fieseler
  as Helmuth
• Bernard McKenna
  as Tommy's father
• Paul Kermack
  as Jamie's father

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