Released
King of the Children
May 1 1987 (over 37 years ago)Rating
70
Based on
24 reviews
- Director: Chen Kaige
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 47 m
- Country: China
- Company: Xi'an Film Studio
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.
