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Hai zi wang = King of the children / Xi'an dian ying zhi pian chang ; [producer, Mao Yu-wen] ; director, Chen Kaige ; screenplay, Chen Kaige, Wang Zhi.
LIBRA DVD 003 439
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Chinese follow me : Chinese movies.
- Chinese follow me : Chinese movies
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acheng, 1949---Film adaptations.
- Acheng.
- Acheng, 1949-.
- Teachers.
- History.
- Education, Rural.
- China.
- Education, Rural--China--Drama.
- China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Drama.
- Teachers--China--Drama.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Teen films.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Chinese.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- King of the children
- Place of Publication:
- Guangzhou City : Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication, [2007?]
- Language Note:
- In Chinese with optional subtitles in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, or English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- A young victim of the Cultural Revolution, Lao Gar, finds himself assigned from labouring 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.
- Participant:
- Xie Yuan, Yang Xuewen, Chen Shaohua.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Gu Changwei; sound, Jing Tao.
- Notes:
- videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1987.
- Based on Hai zi wang / [by] Ah Cheng.
- ISBN:
- 788611504X
- 9787886115042
- OCLC:
- 227038904
- Publisher Number:
- 883629464381
- DE1619-26 Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication
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