King of the Children
★★★★★
Mandarin / 107 MIN. / 1987
The Genres
The 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.