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.

Movie rating: 7.3 / 10 (1438)

Directed by: Bill Douglas

Writer credits: Bill Douglas

Cast: Stephen Archibald - Hughie Restorick - Jean Taylor Smith - Karl Fieseler - Bernard McKenna

AKA: Ritratto d'infanzia

Upload subtitles