King of the Children
1987-05-01
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1h 47m
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Drama
User Score
26 votes
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.
Chen Kaige
Director
Chen Kaige
Writer
