King of the Children (1987)

  • NR
  • 05/01/1987 (CN)
  • Drama
  • 1h 47m

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.

Chen Kaige

Director, Writer

He Jianjun

Writer

A Cheng

Novel

Cast

Xie Yuan's headshot

Xie Yuan

Lao Gar
Xuewen Yang's headshot

Xuewen Yang

Wang Fu
Shaohua Chen's headshot

Shaohua Chen

Headmaster Chen
Caimei Zhang's headshot

Caimei Zhang

Laidi
Guoqing Xu's headshot

Guoqing Xu

Lao Hei
Gu Changwei's headshot

Gu Changwei

Secretary Wu

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