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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.

Country China
Production Country China
Language Mandarin
Spoken Language Mandarin
Gnere Drama
Production Company Xi'an Film Studio
Release Date 1 May 1987
107 mins