

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.
Director: Chen Kaige

Lao Gar
Wang Fu
Headmaster Chen
Laidi
Lao Hei

Secretary Wu