King of the Children
Original title: 孩子王
7.0(27)19871h 47mZH
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.
