The second part (My ain folk) 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.
1972
HD
47min
NR
United Kingdom
English
Bill Douglas
Jean Taylor Smith
Helena Gloag
Bernard McKenna
Karl Fieseler
Hughie Restorick
Paul Kermack
Stephen Archibald
Ann Smith
Eileen McCallum
coming of age
1940s
scotland
animal cruelty
autobiographical
child neglect
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