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What it's about
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.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Bill Douglas
- Writer
- Bill Douglas
Details
- Release date
- Sep 24, 1982
- Language
- Scots, German
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- 3 wins
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