The Man Who Defied Beijing
China would like the world to forget his name
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Overview
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
Perry LinkSelf - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao JianSelf - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe BéjaSelf - Sinologist
Xu YouyuSelf - Philosopher
Andrew NathanSelf - Sinologist
Bei LingSelf - Poet
Hu PingSelf - Journalist
Wu'er KaixiSelf - Student Leader (1989)Liao YiwuSelf - Writer
Yu JieSelf - Essayist
Teng BiaoSelf - Professor of Law
Xia YeliangSelf - Economist
Crew
DirectorPierre Haski
Details
Original TitleL'Homme qui a défié Pékin
Release DateMay 14, 2019
LanguagesMandarin, French
StudiosARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari
