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.
Top Billed Cast
Xie Yuan
Lao Gar
Xuewen Yang
Wang Fu
Shaohua Chen
Headmaster Chen
Caimei Zhang
Laidi
Xu Guoqing
Lao Hei
Featured Crew
Chen Kaige
Director
Gu Changwei
Director of Photography
Wu Tianming
Executive Producer
Qiang Xiaolu
Assistant Director
Chen Kaige
Writer
Jing Tao
Sound Designer
Miaomiao Liu
Sound Editor
Miaomiao Liu
Editor
Qu Xiaosong
Original Music Composer
Hong An
Makeup Artist
A Cheng
Novel
Shaohua Chen
Art Direction
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