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The Man Who Defied Beijing

65 %|May 14, 2019|Documentary, History

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.

Featured Crew

Pierre Haski
Director
Anthony Dufour
Idea
François Cauwel
Director of Photography
Mathias Lavergne
Editor
Nicolas de Zorzi
Original Music Composer
Romain Colonna D'Istria
Sound Mixer
Pierre Haski
Writer
Nicolas Wiart
Production Manager

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Cast

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Perry Link
Himself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
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Hao Jian
Himself - Film Critic and Screenwriter
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Jean-Philippe Béja
Himself - Sinologist
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Xu Youyu
Himself - Philosopher
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Andrew Nathan
Himself - Sinologist
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Bei Ling
Himself - Poet
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Hu Ping
Himself - Journalist
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Wu'er Kaixi
Himself - Student Leader (1989)
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Liao Yiwu
Himself - Writer
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Yu Jie
Himself - Essayist
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Teng Biao
Himself - Professor of Law
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Xia Yeliang
Himself - Economist
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Chris May
Himself - Diplomatic
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Liu Xia
Herself - Poet and Liu's Wife
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Liu Xiaobo
Himself - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
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Mao Zedong
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Deng Xiaoping
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Hu Yaobang
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Li Peng
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Zhao Ziyang
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Jian Zemin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Bill Clinton
Himself - Politician (archive footage)