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
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King of the Children
★ 7.0/1019871h 47m
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.
Creators and cast
- Directors
- Chen Kaige
- Producers
- Wu Tianming
- Studio
- Xi'an Film Studio
Maturity rating
Not yet rated.
Audio languages
Mandarin
Where to watch
Stream
