King of the Children (1987)

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.

Released

1987-05-01

Genres

Drama

Runtime

107 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Chen Kaige

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 27 votes