The Garden of Youth (1956)

Plot Summary

A group of eighth-grade boys and girls set themselves the goal of greening the vacant lot adjacent to their school and turning it into a blooming garden. At first, they thought it would be extremely easy to achieve this goal. But then there were those who argued that the garden only required physical strength (so wouldn't it be easier to hire workers?) and that schoolchildren should not be distracted from their classes, especially since many of them were falling behind. The enthusiastic gardeners did not give up. They took the weaker students under their wing. Much more was needed—special knowledge, teamwork skills, and perseverance—before the eighth graders were able to ceremoniously present the school with the first bouquets of flowers from their plot.

Full Cast & Characters

Manyi Su

Xiao-Hui's mother

Jie Liu

Mother Wang

Weina Zhang

Xiao-Hui Li

Huanqing Li

Teacher Shi

Baoluo Li

Teacher Hua

Gao Ye

Principal

Guoyi Gu

Luhua Du

Ziqiang Jiang

Xinghua Fang

Haigen Chen

Dawei Zhao

Ansheng Kang

Bingliang Li

Anduan Liu

Dasheng Xu

Jianan Wu

Changlin Gao

Director & Crew

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