King of the Children
About 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.
King of the Children (1987) is a drama film directed by Chen Kaige.
Xie Yuan stars as Lao Gar, Xuewen Yang as Wang Fu, Shaohua Chen as Headmaster Chen, and Caimei Zhang as Laidi. At 107 minutes long, it arrived in May 1987.
The screenplay is by Chen Kaige and He Jianjun.