My Childhood (1972)
My Childhood (1972)
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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Stephen Archibald Stephen Archibald As: Jamie
Hughie Restorick Hughie Restorick As: Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith Jean Taylor Smith As: Grandmother
Karl Fieseler Karl Fieseler As: Helmuth
Bernard McKenna Bernard McKenna As: Tommy's father
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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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Genres: Drama

Language: English

Release Date: 05 June 1972

Country: GB

Runtime: 47m

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Company: BFI

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Cast

Stephen Archibald

Stephen Archibald

Jamie

Hughie Restorick

Hughie Restorick

Tommy

Jean Taylor Smith

Jean Taylor Smith

Grandmother

Karl Fieseler

Karl Fieseler

Helmuth

Bernard McKenna

Bernard McKenna

Tommy's father

Paul Kermack

Paul Kermack

Jamie's father

Helena Gloag

Helena Gloag

Father's mother

Ann Smith

Ann Smith

Jamie's mother

Eileen McCallum

Eileen McCallum

Nurse

Helen Rae

Helen Rae

Bus conductress

James Eccles

James Eccles

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Mick Campbell

Mick Campbell

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