Hai zi wang = King of the children /
孩子王 = King of the children /
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 increas...
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| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | Chinese English |
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[Xi'an] : [Guangzhou Shi] :
Xi'an dian ying zhi pian chang lu yin lu xiang chu ban she ; Guangzhou qiao jia ren wen hua chuan bo you xian gong si,
[2007]
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| Series: | Zhongguo jing dian dian ying.
Gen wo xue Han yu |
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 1987. Based on a novel by Acheng. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | DVD-R. |
| Production Credits: | Cinematographer, Gu Changwei ; art, Chen Shaohua ; music, Qu Xiaosong. |