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.
Chen Kaige | Director |
Gu Changwei | Director of Photography |
Chen Kaige | Writer |
A Cheng | Novel |
Shaohua Chen | Production Designer |
Miaomiao Liu | Sound Editor |
Shaohua Chen | Art Direction |
Jing Tao | Sound Designer |
Wu Tianming | Executive Producer |
Qiang Xiaolu | Assistant Director |