King of the Children

Year: 1987

Runtime: 107 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Chen Kaige

Drama

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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