King of the Children

King of the Children

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1987-05-01

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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King of the Children

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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.

Released

1987-05-01

Runtime

107

Director

Chen Kaige

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

Genres

Drama

Language

普通话

Production

Xi'an Film Studio

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    Xie Yuan

    Xie Yuan
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    Xuewen Yang

    Xuewen Yang
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    Shaohua Chen

    Shaohua Chen
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    Caimei Zhang

    Caimei Zhang
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    Xu Guoqing

    Guoqing Xu
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    Gu Changwei

    顾长卫