Film
King of the Children
1987Directed by Chen Kaige
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
About King of the Children
- Drama
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Chen Kaige
- Writers
- He Jianjun
- Chen Kaige
- Zhong A-Cheng
- Original title
- 孩子王
