King of the Children
Year: 1987
Runtime: 107 mins
Language: Chinese
Director: Chen Kaige
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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