King of the Children

Movie · 1h 47m

Starring Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang

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.