Released:
1987-05-01

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.

Director:
Chen Kaige

Runtime:
1h 47min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Xie Yuan
  as
  Lao Gar
• 
  Xuewen Yang
  as
  Wang Fu
• 
  Shaohua Chen
  as
  Headmaster Chen
• 
  Caimei Zhang
  as
  Laidi
• 
  Xu Guoqing
  as
  Lao Hei