The Man Who Defied Beijing
China would like the world to forget his name
2019 fr 59 minutes
Rating: 6.5
Plot
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
Perry Link
Himself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian
Himself - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja
Himself - Sinologist
Xu Youyu
Himself - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan
Himself - Sinologist
Bei Ling
Himself - Poet
Hu Ping
Himself - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Himself - Student Leader (1989)
Liao Yiwu
Himself - Writer
Yu Jie
Himself - Essayist
Teng Biao
Himself - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang
Himself - Economist
Chris May
Himself - Diplomatic
Liu Xia
Herself - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo
Himself - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Deng Xiaoping
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Hu Yaobang
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Li Peng
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Zhao Ziyang
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Jian Zemin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
