Drama
King of the Children
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.
Directed by Chen Kaige, Wu Tianming
70
User score
26 votes
Status
Released
Released
May 1, 1987
Runtime
1h 47m
Language
Mandarin
