King of the Children (1987)
孩子王
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.
- Date of release
- 1987-05-01
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (27)
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Chen Kaige
Casting
- Xie Yuan — Lao Gar
- Xuewen Yang — Wang Fu
- Shaohua Chen — Headmaster Chen
- Caimei Zhang — Laidi
- Xu Guoqing — Lao Hei
- Gu Changwei — Secretary Wu
Interesting facts
King of the Children is a 1987 drama film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Chen Shaohua. The film was based on a novella of the same name by Ah Cheng. The film competed for the Palme D'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
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