Genres
Duration
59 min
Director
Pierre Haski
Rating
6.5
Release Date
May 14, 2019
The Man Who Defied Beijing
Original title: L'Homme qui a défié Pékin
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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.
The Man Who Defied Beijing cast
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Perry Link
Character:
Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
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Hao Jian
Character:
Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
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Jean-Philippe Béja
Character:
Self - Sinologist
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Xu Youyu
Character:
Self - Philosopher
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Andrew Nathan
Character:
Self - Sinologist
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Bei Ling
Character:
Self - Poet
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Hu Ping
Character:
Self - Journalist
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Wu'er Kaixi
Character:
Self - Student Leader (1989)
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Liao Yiwu
Character:
Self - Writer
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Yu Jie
Character:
Self - Essayist
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Teng Biao
Character:
Self - Professor of Law
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Xia Yeliang
Character:
Self - Economist
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Chris May
Character:
Self - Diplomatic
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Liu Xia
Character:
Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
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Liu Xiaobo
Character:
Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
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Mao Zedong
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Deng Xiaoping
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Hu Yaobang
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Li Peng
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Zhao Ziyang
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Jian Zemin
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
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Bill Clinton
Character:
Self - Politician (archive footage)
