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The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
Directed by Pierre Haski
“China would like the world to forget his name”
Documentary, History · 59m
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.
Cast
P
Perry Link
Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
H
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
Crew
- Director
- Pierre Haski
- Writer
- Pierre Haski
- Director of Photography
- François Cauwel
- Original Music Composer
- Nicolas de Zorzi
- Editor
- Mathias Lavergne
- Producer
- Heike Lettau, Caroline Laub
Details
- Original title
- L'Homme qui a défié Pékin
- Release date
- 2019-05-14
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin, French
- Countries
- Belgium, France, Germany
- Production
- ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari