King of the Children

1987· 107 min★ 7.1· 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, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen

Director: Chen Kaige