The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)

05/14/2019 (BE) • 59m

Documentary, History

China would like the world to forget his name

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.

Top Billed Cast

Perry Link

Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator

Hao Jian

Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter

Jean-Philippe Béja

Self - Sinologist

Xu Youyu

Self - Philosopher

Andrew Nathan

Self - Sinologist

Bei Ling

Self - Poet

Hu Ping

Self - Journalist

Wu'er Kaixi

Self - Student Leader (1989)

Liao Yiwu

Self - Writer


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Status

Released

Original Language

Mandarin

Budget

-

Revenue

-

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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