King of the children = Hai tzu wang

The third feature by the director of “Yellow Earth” and “The Big Parade” is set in a remote forest area of Yunnen Province during the Cultural Revolution. A young man from the city, sent to the countryside in a work brigade, is chosen to be a teacher at a village school, despite his own lack of formal education. There he discovers an immense gap between the needs of his students and the culture he is required to offer them. In Mandarin with English subtitles.

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Credits

production company

Xi'an Film Studio

director

Chen Kaige

Duration

01:47:00:00

Production places

China

Production dates

1988

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

324137

Language

Chinese

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films

Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Teaching

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - China

Foreign language films

History → China - History

History → History

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q3226570

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China, 1988

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