King of the Children (1987)

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Original Title: 孩子王

Release Date: May 01, 1987

Runtime: 107 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

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.