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.
Cast
Crew
Chen Kaige
Director, Writer
He Jianjun
Writer
Zhong A-Cheng
Novel
Miaomiao Liu
Editor, Sound Editor
Gu Changwei
Director of Photography
Qiang Xiaolu
Assistant Director
Wu Tianming
Executive Producer
Shaohua Chen
Production Designer, Art Direction
Hong An
Makeup Artist
Tao Jing
Sound Designer
Gu Changning
Sound Supervisor
Qu Xiaosong
Original Music Composer
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Original Music Composer
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