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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
27 audience votes
Key crew
- Chen KaigeDirector
- He JianjunWriter
- Chen KaigeWriter
- Qu XiaosongOriginal Music Composer
- Tian ZhuangzhuangOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Xie YuanLao Gar
- Xuewen YangWang Fu
- Shaohua ChenHeadmaster Chen
- Caimei ZhangLaidi
- Xu GuoqingLao Hei
- Gu ChangweiSecretary Wu