The Man Who Defied Beijing
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The Man Who Defied Beijing

China would like the world to forget his name

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Release date

May 14, 2019

Creator / Director / Author

Pierre Haski

Runtime

59 min

Rating

6.5 / 10

Cast

Perry Link, Hao Jian, Jean-Philippe Béja, Xu Youyu, Andrew Nathan, Bei Ling, Hu Ping, Wu'er Kaixi

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.

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