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My Childhood

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Drama • Drama, UR, 01-Jan-1972

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.

Tags
German prisoners of war, World War II, Childhood
Cast
Stephen Archibald Jamie
Hughie Restorick Tommy
Jean Taylor Smith grandmother
Bernard McKenna Tommy's father
Crew
Bill Douglas director

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