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King of the Children (1987)

1h 47m

Running Time

King of the Children (1987)

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

1h 47m

Running Time

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

He Jianjun

Writer

Cheng A

Novel

Wu Tianming

Executive Producer

Miaomiao Liu

Editor / Sound Editor

Hong An

Makeup Artist

Qiang Xiaolu

Assistant Director

Jing Tao

Sound Designer

Gu Changning

Sound Supervisor

Xiao-Song Qu

Original Music Composer

Tian Zhuangzhuang

Original Music Composer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1987

Original Name
孩子王

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 47m

Genres
Drama

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.