King of the Children
1987
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Synopsis
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.
Facts
Setting
Yunnan
Original language
Mandarin
Stills
Festival History
- Berlin International Film Festival 1989 generic
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 1989 generic
- Cannes Film Festival 1988 generic
- Locarno International Film Festival 1988 generic
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