King of the Children (1987)
1h 47m
Running Time
May 1, 1987Release Date
King of the Children (1987)
1h 47m
Running Time
May 1, 1987Release Date
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 / Art Direction / Production Designer
Caimei Zhang
Laidi
Xu Guoqing
Lao Hei
Gu Changwei
Secretary Wu / Director of Photography
Chen Kaige
Director / Writer
Wu Tianming
Executive Producer
Qiang Xiaolu
Assistant Director
Jing Tao
Sound Designer
Miaomiao Liu
Sound Editor / Editor
Qu Xiaosong
Original Music Composer
Hong An
Makeup Artist
A Cheng
Novel
He Jianjun
Writer
Gu Changning
Sound Supervisor
Media.
Details.
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.
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