My Childhood

Year: 1972

Runtime: 47 mins

Language: English

Director: Bill Douglas

Drama

The opening film of Bill Douglas’s celebrated trilogy returns to his bleak childhood in early‑1940s Scotland. As an eight‑year‑old living on the breadline in a destitute mining village with his half‑brother and a sick grandmother, his sole refuge is the cinema, which he finances by collecting and returning empty jam jars. The picture portrays that fragile escape against relentless poverty.

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