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1987

King of the Children

Directed by Chen Kaige

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.

Duration

1h 47m

Released

May 1, 1987

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Cast6

  • Xie Yuan
  • Xuewen Yang
  • Shaohua Chen
  • Caimei Zhang
  • Xu Guoqing
  • Gu Changwei

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