Comrades
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.
My Childhood
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.
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Bill Douglas
Director
Imelda Staunton
as
Betsy Loveless
Alex Norton
as
Diorama Showman / Lanternist / Laughing Cavalier / Sgt. Bell / Mr Wetham
Malcolm Terris
as
Gentleman Farmer
James Fox
as
Norfolk
Eileen McCallum
as
Nurse
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