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My Childhood
The first part of Bill Douglas’ poetic and profoundly stirring autobiographical trilogy, about an eight-year-old boy growing up in a Scottish mining village in 1945.
Drama 1972 46 mins
Director: Bill Douglas
Overview
Set in 1945, the first part of Bill Douglas’ poetic and profoundly stirring autobiographical triptych revisits his impoverished childhood, living with his grandmother and half-brother in the Scottish mining village of Newcraighall.
The austere but beautiful black-and-white camerawork perfectly captures the harsh realities of an existence which finds the eight-year-old Jamie often seeking solace from the movies as a respite from the realities of poverty, an absent father and a mentally-ill mother.
- Director
- Bill Douglas
- Featuring
- Stephen ArchibaldHughie RestorickJean Taylor SmithBernard McKenna
- Genres
- Drama
- Certificate
- Released
- 1972
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
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