The Man Who Defied Beijing

Directed by Pierre Haski
2019    59m
Documentary, Biography, History
7.7
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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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Cast of The Man Who Defied Beijing
  • Perry LinkHimself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
  • Hao JianHimself - Film Critic and Screenwriter
  • Jean-Philippe BéjaHimself - Sinologist
  • Xu YouyuHimself - Philosopher
  • Andrew NathanHimself - Sinologist
  • Bei LingHimself - Poet
  • Hu PingHimself - Journalist
  • Wu'er KaixiHimself - Student Leader (1989)
  • Liao YiwuHimself - Writer
  • Yu JieHimself - Essayist
  • Teng BiaoHimself - Professor of Law
  • Xia YeliangHimself - Economist
  • Chris MayHimself - Diplomatic
  • Liu XiaHerself - Poet and Liu's Wife
  • Liu XiaoboHimself - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
  • Mao ZedongHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Deng XiaopingHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Hu YaobangHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Mikhail GorbachevHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Li PengHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Zhao ZiyangHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Jian ZeminHimself - Politician (archive footage)
  • Bill ClintonHimself - Politician (archive footage)

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