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King of the Children (1987)

1h 47m

Running Time

May 1, 1987
Release Date

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King of the Children (1987)

Name: King of the Children
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987-05-01

1h 47m

Running Time

May 1, 1987
Release Date

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Plot.

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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Cast & Crew.

Xie Yuan

Lao Gar

Xuewen Yang

Wang Fu

Shaohua Chen

Headmaster Chen / Production Designer / Art Direction

Caimei Zhang

Laidi

Guoqing Xu

Lao Hei

Gu Changwei

Secretary Wu / Director of Photography

Chen Kaige

Director / Writer

A Cheng

Novel

Miaomiao Liu

Sound Editor / Editor

Jing Tao

Sound Designer

Wu Tianming

Executive Producer

Qiang Xiaolu

Assistant Director

He Jianjun

Writer

Hong An

Makeup Artist

Gu Changning

Sound Supervisor

Xiao-Song Qu

Original Music Composer

Tian Zhuangzhuang

Original Music Composer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
May 1, 1987

Original Name
孩子王

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 47m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2024-09-08

Wiki.

King of the Children (Chinese: 孩子王; pinyin: Háizǐ Wáng) is a 1987 drama film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Chen Shaohua. The film was based on a novella of the same name by Ah Cheng. The film competed for the Palme D'Or at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.