Movie

King of the Children

★ 7/10 · 26 votes 1987 1h 47m Released

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.

Cast

Xie Yuan Lao Gar X Xuewen Yang Wang Fu S Shaohua Chen Headmaster Chen C Caimei Zhang Laidi X Xu Guoqing Lao Hei Gu Changwei Secretary Wu