King of the Children
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King of the Children

★ 7.0/10 TMDB 1987-05-01 107 min

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.

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Xie Yuan
Xie Yuan
Lao Gar
Xuewen Yang
Wang Fu
Shaohua Chen
Headmaster Chen
Caimei Zhang
Laidi
Xu Guoqing
Lao Hei
Gu Changwei
Gu Changwei
Secretary Wu
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