The Man Who Defied Beijing
Pierre Haski2019-05-14
China would like the world to forget his name
6.5
59 min
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.
Cast
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Perry Link | Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator | Unowned |
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Hao Jian | Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter | Unowned |
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Jean-Philippe Béja | Self - Sinologist | Unowned |
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Xu Youyu | Self - Philosopher | Unowned |
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Andrew Nathan | Self - Sinologist | Unowned |
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Bei Ling | Self - Poet | Unowned |
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Hu Ping | Self - Journalist | Unowned |
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Wu'er Kaixi | Self - Student Leader (1989) | Unowned |
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Liao Yiwu | Self - Writer | Unowned |
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Yu Jie | Self - Essayist | Unowned |
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Teng Biao | Self - Professor of Law | Unowned |
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Xia Yeliang | Self - Economist | Unowned |
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Chris May | Self - Diplomatic | Unowned |
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Liu Xia | Self - Poet and Liu's Wife | Unowned |
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Liu Xiaobo | Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Mao Zedong | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Deng Xiaoping | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Hu Yaobang | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Mikhail Gorbachev | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Li Peng | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Zhao Ziyang | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Jian Zemin | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |
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Bill Clinton | Self - Politician (archive footage) | Unowned |