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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.
Xie Yuan
Cast
Xuewen Yang
Cast
Shaohua Chen
Cast
Caimei Zhang
Cast
Xu Guoqing
Cast
Gu Changwei
Cast
Chen Kaige
Director
He Jianjun
Writer
Chen Kaige
Writer
Zhong A-Cheng
Writer

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