King of the Children

7|1987|1h 47m| ZH

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.

Genres: Drama

Director: Chen Kaige

Votes: 24