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The Man Who Defied Beijing
China would like the world to forget his name
May 14, 2019
59m
Synopsis
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.
Title | The Man Who Defied Beijing |
Companies | ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari |
Countries | Belgium, France, Germany |
Keywords | biography, political activist, nobel peace prize, communist china, political repression, portrait of an artist, celebrity interview, tiananmen square, persecuted writer, last interview |
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Self - Sinologist and Liu's TranslatorHao Jian
Self - Film Critic and ScreenwriterJean-Philippe Béja
Self - SinologistXu Youyu
Self - PhilosopherAndrew Nathan
Self - SinologistBei Ling
Self - PoetHu Ping
Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Self - Student Leader (1989)Liao Yiwu
Self - WriterYu Jie
Self - EssayistTeng Biao
Self - Professor of LawXia Yeliang
Self - EconomistChris May
Self - DiplomaticLiu Xia
Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo
Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Deng Xiaoping
Self - Politician (archive footage)Hu Yaobang
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Self - Politician (archive footage)Li Peng
Self - Politician (archive footage)Zhao Ziyang
Self - Politician (archive footage)Jian Zemin
Self - Politician (archive footage)