King of the Children

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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Cast

Xie Yuan

Yang Xuewen

Chen Shaohua

Zhang Caimei

Xu Guoqing

Le Gang

Tan Tou

Gu Changwei

Wu Xia

Liu Haichen

Qiang Xiaolu

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