King of the Children (7.0)

Movie · 1987 · 1 h 47 min · Drama

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: 陈凯歌

Starring 谢园, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang, Guoqing Xu, 顾长卫

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