The Man Who Defied Beijing
2019
6.5 (2)
59 min
French
China would like the world to forget his name
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.
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- ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari
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Top Cast
Perry Link as Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian as Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja as Self - Sinologist
Xu Youyu as Self - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan as Self - Sinologist
Bei Ling as Self - Poet
Hu Ping as Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi as Self - Student Leader (1989)
Top Crew
Pierre Haski · Director, Writer
Nicolas de Zorzi · Composer
François Cauwel · Cinematographer
Mathias Lavergne · Editor
Caroline Laub · Producer
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