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.

• DirectorChen Kaige
• Release1 May 1987
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 47m
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  7.0
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  Xi'an Film Studio