Movielogr
King of the Children (1987)
Directed by Chen Kaige
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.
Length 107 minutes
Actors
Yuan Xie | Xuewen Yang | Shaohua Chen | Caimei Zhang | Guoqing Xu | Gu Chang-Wei