King of the Children

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.

Cast

Xie Yuan

Lao Gar

Xuewen Yang

Wang Fu

Shaohua Chen

Headmaster Chen

Caimei Zhang

Laidi

Xu Guoqing

Lao Hei

Gu Changwei

Secretary Wu