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.

Cast:

Stephen Archibald
Jamie 

Hughie Restorick
Tommy 

Jean Taylor Smith
Grandmother 

Karl Fieseler
Helmuth 

Bernard McKenna
Tommy's father 

Paul Kermack
Jamie's father