King of the Children (movie)
孩子王- User score: 7
- Production country: China
- Producer: Chen Kaige
- Production companies: Xi'an Film Studio
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 5/1/1987
- Run time: 107 min.
Movie description
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.