My Childhood
My Childhood · dir. Bill Douglas
UK 1972, 46’
19 October, 14:30 · Od Nowa – large hall
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 Tommy and sick grandmother in a poor mining village.
| Director: | Bill Douglas |
| Screenplay: | Bill Douglas |
| Cinematography: | Mick Campbell |
| Editing: | Brand Thumim |
| Cast: | Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Karl Fieseler, Bernard McKenna |
| Awards: | Berlinale – Forum Nowego Kina: Nagroda OCIC / Forum of New Cinema: OCIC Award (1974) |
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