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.
Directed by: Chen Kaige
Written by: He Jianjun, Chen Kaige, Zhong A-Cheng
Music by: Qu Xiaosong, Tian Zhuangzhuang
Starring: Xie Yuan, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen, Caimei Zhang, Xu Guoqing, Gu Changwei
Genre: Drama
Released: 1987-05-01
Runtime: 107 minutes
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