My Childhood (1972)
Directed by Bill Douglas
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
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.
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war, boy, Britain, brother, childhood, enemy, friendship, Germany, grandmother, half-brother, MIA (Missing in Action), POW (Prisoner of War), prison, project [plan]
