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King of the Children (1987)
Directed by Chen Kaige
Drama · 1h 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.
Cast
Xie Yuan
Gu Changwei
Crew
- Director
- Chen Kaige
- Writer
- Chen Kaige, He Jianjun
- Novel
- Zhong A-Cheng
- Director of Photography
- Gu Changwei
- Original Music Composer
- Qu Xiaosong, Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Editor
- Miaomiao Liu
Details
- Original title
- 孩子王
- Release date
- 1987-05-01
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China
- Production
- Xi'an Film Studio