King of the Children
First aired on May 1, 1987
Runtime: 107mins
70%
Genres: Drama
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.
Featured Cast: click image to view more
Xie Yuan | Lao Gar
Xuewen Yang | Wang Fu
Shaohua Chen | Headmaster Chen
Caimei Zhang | Laidi
Xu Guoqing | Lao Hei
Gu Changwei | Secretary Wu
Featured Crew
Chen Kaige | Director
Gu Changwei | Director of Photography
He Jianjun | Writer
Chen Kaige | Writer
Zhong A-Cheng | Novel
Wu Tianming | Executive Producer
