King of the Children (1987-05-01)

Drama |

6.981

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

Star Cast: Xie Yuan , Xuewen Yang , Shaohua Chen , Caimei Zhang ,