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King of the Children

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.

RATING

7.00

DIRECTOR

Chen Kaige

COUNTRIE

China

RELEASE DATE

1987

TIME

1h 47m

GENRE

Drama