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King of the Children

70% | May 01, 1987 | 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.

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Chen Kaige
Director
Gu Changwei
Director of Photography

Cast

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Xie Yuan
Lao Gar
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Xuewen Yang
Wang Fu
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Shaohua Chen
Headmaster Chen
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Guoqing Xu
Lao Hei

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