King of the Children
During the Cultural Revolution, an unschooled young man 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.
Genre: Drama
Director: Chen Kaige
Actors: Caimei Zhang, Gu Changwei, Guoqing Xu, Shaohua Chen, Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang
