King of the Children

King of the Children

7.0

Mandarin/107 min./1987

Genres

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.

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