King of the Children

(1987)

★ 7 IMDb · 26 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1987

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: China

Director: 陈凯歌

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

Plot

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.