King of the Children

Name: King of the Children
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 7

1987 · 107 min

Drama

★ 7.0

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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.

Crew

Director Chen Kaige
Writer Chen Kaige
Writer He Jianjun
Director of Photography Gu Changwei

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

Crew

Director — Chen Kaige
Writer — Chen Kaige
Writer — He Jianjun
Director of Photography — Gu Changwei

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🔥 Hot takes

warming up the wall…

Intermission

GO DEEPER

Turn the obscurity dial up. There's a lot further down to go.

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