King of the Children

King of the Children

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1987-05-01

Drama

Runtime: 107 minutes

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

Featured Crew

Chen Kaige

Director