Film·2019·TP·59m

The Man Who Defied Beijing

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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.

Directed by Pierre Haski

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12 credited

Perry Link
Perry LinkSelf - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian
Hao JianSelf - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja
Jean-Philippe BéjaSelf - Sinologist
Xu Youyu
Xu YouyuSelf - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan
Andrew NathanSelf - Sinologist
Bei Ling
Bei LingSelf - Poet
Hu Ping
Hu PingSelf - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Wu'er KaixiSelf - Student Leader (1989)
Liao Yiwu
Liao YiwuSelf - Writer
Yu Jie
Yu JieSelf - Essayist
Teng Biao
Teng BiaoSelf - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang
Xia YeliangSelf - Economist

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