by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
My Childhood is an award-winning black-and-white film which recounts director Bill Douglas' experiences as a child in Scotland during World War II. The movie was shot in the same locations he lived in as a boy. In the film, the boy lives with his half-brother and grandmother in a remote mining village. The bleakness of their lives is brightened by their friendship with a German P.O.W. This short film is the first of three dealing with director Douglas' Scottish childhood. The other two are My Ain Folk and My Way Home.
characteristics
- Life On The Homefront
- Unlikely Friendships
- War
- Lock-up
- MIA (Missing In Action)
- Prison
- Project [plan]
- Jail
- POW (Prisoner Of War)
- Half-brother
- Brother
- Britain
- Brig
- Childhood
- Enemy
