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King of the Children (1987) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1987 · 107 mins · Chinese
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- Directed by
- Chen Kaige
- Starring
- Gu Changwei, Xu Guoqing, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Xie Yuan, Caimei Zhang
An unschooled young man, a victim of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, toils in the countryside and is later assigned to teach at a nearby school. Rejecting the rigid Maoist textbook, he encourages the barely literate children to express their own lives and feelings through writing, helping them discover a personal voice amid political oppression.
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