
King of the Children (1987)

King of the Children
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.
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King of the Children
1987 / 1 hr 47 minAn 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.
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Director
Chen Kaige
Cast
Xie Yuan, Gu Changwei
Producted By
Xi'an Film Studio
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