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King of the Children
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King of the Children

1987
Directed byChen Kaige
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.

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Xie YuanLao GarXuewen YangWang FuShaohua Chen
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
7.0

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