The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
"China would like the world to forget his name"
Overview
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.
Top Cast
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Perry Link
Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
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Hao Jian
Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
J
Jean-Philippe Béja
Self - Sinologist
X
Xu Youyu
Self - Philosopher
A
Andrew Nathan
Self - Sinologist
B
Bei Ling
Self - Poet
H
Hu Ping
Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Self - Student Leader (1989)
L
Liao Yiwu
Self - Writer
Y
Yu Jie
Self - Essayist
T
Teng Biao
Self - Professor of Law
X
Xia Yeliang
Self - Economist
C
Chris May
Self - Diplomatic
L
Liu Xia
Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo
Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
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