King of the Children(孩子王)
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China · 1987
1h 47m
Director Chen Kaige
Starring Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang
Genre Drama
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An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is labouring in the countryside when he is suddenly assigned to teach in a near-by village school. Gradually, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and encourage the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, through a series of dream-like meetings with a young cowherd, he begins to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the parameters of traditional education.
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