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Cast

Xie Yuan

Xie Yuan

Lao Gar

Xuewen Yang

Xuewen Yang

Wang Fu

Shaohua Chen

Shaohua Chen

Headmaster Chen

Caimei Zhang

Caimei Zhang

Laidi

Xu Guoqing

Xu Guoqing

Lao Hei

Gu Changwei

Gu Changwei

Secretary Wu

Crew

Chen Kaige

Chen Kaige

Director

Gu Changwei

Gu Changwei

Director of Photography

Wu Tianming

Wu Tianming

Executive Producer

Qiang Xiaolu

Qiang Xiaolu

Assistant Director

Chen Kaige

Chen Kaige

Writer

Tao Jing

Tao Jing

Sound Designer

Miaomiao Liu

Miaomiao Liu

Sound Editor

Miaomiao Liu

Miaomiao Liu

Editor

Qu Xiaosong

Qu Xiaosong

Original Music Composer

Hong An

Hong An

Makeup Artist

Zhong A-Cheng

Zhong A-Cheng

Novel

Shaohua Chen

Shaohua Chen

Art Direction

He Jianjun

He Jianjun

Writer

Shaohua Chen

Shaohua Chen

Production Designer

Gu Changning

Gu Changning

Sound Supervisor

Tian Zhuangzhuang

Tian Zhuangzhuang

Original Music Composer

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King of the Children

19877.0 / 10107 min
Drama

Overview

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.