The Man Who Defied Beijing
“China would like the world to forget his name”
2019•59m•6.5•Released
DocumentaryHistory
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.
Director
Pierre Haski
Writer
Pierre Haski
Languages
Mandarin, French
Studio
ARTE GEIE
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
Yu Jie
Self - Essayist
Teng Biao
Self - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang
Self - Economist
Chris May
Self - Diplomatic
Liu Xia
Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo
Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
Production
Company
ARTE GEIE
Company
Pictanovo
Company
RTBF
Company
Hikari
Producer
Heike Lettau
Producer
Caroline Laub
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