The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
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.
- Released
- 2019-05-14
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Runtime
- 59 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Pierre Haski
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 from 2 votes
Cast
- Perry Link as Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
- Hao Jian as Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
- Jean-Philippe Béja as Self - Sinologist
- Xu Youyu as Self - Philosopher
- Andrew Nathan as Self - Sinologist
- Bei Ling as Self - Poet
- Hu Ping as Self - Journalist
- Wu'er Kaixi as Self - Student Leader (1989)
- Liao Yiwu as Self - Writer
- Yu Jie as Self - Essayist
- Teng Biao as Self - Professor of Law
- Xia Yeliang as Self - Economist