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.
Directing | Chen Kaige | Director |
Camera | Gu Changwei | Director of Photography |
Writing | He Jianjun | Writer |
Writing | Chen Kaige | Writer |
Writing | Cheng A | Novel |
Production | Wu Tianming | Executive Producer |
Editing | Miaomiao Liu | Editor |
Production | Shaohua Chen | Production Designer |
Art | Shaohua Chen | Art Direction |
Costume & Make-Up | Hong An | Makeup Artist |
Directing | Qiang Xiaolu | Assistant Director |
Sound | Jing Tao | Sound Designer |
Sound | Miaomiao Liu | Sound Editor |
Sound | Gu Changning | Sound Supervisor |
Sound | Xiao-Song Qu | Original Music Composer |
Sound | Tian Zhuangzhuang | Original Music Composer |