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Hai zi wang

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  • "King of the children"

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  • "A devoted rural teacher becomes the friend of his students."
  • "A young victim of the Cultural Revolution, Lao Gar, finds himself assigned from labouring to teaching a group of semi-literate children in a nearby village. He gradually abandons teaching them the official line by rote learning. Instead he encourages self expression under the influence of his increasingly hallucinatory encounters with a young mute cowherd who seems to represent a state of existence outside language. These visual and aural hallucinations are amplified by Yunan landscapes and draw Lao Gar further into a potentially creative conflict between language and non-language, the former symbolic of official culture, the latter of a world of mystery and uncertainty."
  • "The story is set in south-western China during the Cultural Revolution in 1976. A young man has been working in the countryside for seven years when he is chosen to be the teacher at the local school. With only one year of secondary education, few material resources, and against the wishes of the officials, he encourages his students to express their individuality."
  • "Lao Gan fails at teaching junior high school students, and the schoolmaster blames his inadequacy on the fact that Lao Gan himself is only a primary school graduate. Since there are no textbooks the students have to copy them, and without a good textbook Lao Gan's dictionary becomes the children's "Bible". Used to only reading theoretical texts, the students are unable to understand and write compositions, so Lao Gan teaches them the ABC's of composition writing. As the children become armed with knowledge, they grow more perplexed about the world."
  • "A young victim of the Cultural Revolution, Lao Gar, finds himself assigned from laboring to teaching a group of semi-literate children in a nearby village. He gradually abandons teaching them the official line by rote learning. Instead he encourages self-expression under the influence of his increasingly hallucinatory encounters with a young mute cowherd who seems to represent a state of existence outside language. These visual and aural hallucinations are amplified by Yunan landscapes and draw Lao Gar further into a potentially creative conflict between language and non-language, the former symbolic of official culture, the latter of a world of mystery and uncertainty."

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  • "Feature films"
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Chinese language films"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "History"
  • "Motion pictures, Chinese"
  • "Drama"

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  • "Hai zi wang"
  • "Hai zi wang King of the children"
  • "Hai zi wang (Motion picture)"
  • "孩子王"
  • "孩子王 King of the children"

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