My Childhood

• Movies
• 1972-06-05
• EN
• Released
• 0h 47m
• GB
• Drama

• 6.9
• 46
• Trailer

Production

BFI

Storyline

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.