King of the Children

Name: King of the Children
Director: Chen Kaige
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987-05-01
Duration: 107 min
Cast: Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang, Xu Guoqing

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1987 · 107 min · Drama · TMDB 7.0/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Chen Kaige

Cast

Xie Yuan — Lao Gar
Xuewen Yang — Wang Fu
Shaohua Chen — Headmaster Chen
Caimei Zhang — Laidi
Xu Guoqing — Lao Hei