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.
Director: Pierre Haski
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Perry Link as Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator |
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Hao Jian as Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter |
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Jean-Philippe Béja as Self - Sinologist |
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Xu Youyu as Self - Philosopher |
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Andrew Nathan as Self - Sinologist |
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Bei Ling as Self - Poet |
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Hu Ping as Self - Journalist |
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Wu'er Kaixi as Self - Student Leader (1989) |
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Liao Yiwu as Self - Writer |
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Yu Jie as Self - Essayist |
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Teng Biao as Self - Professor of Law |
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Xia Yeliang as Self - Economist |
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Chris May as Self - Diplomatic |
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Liu Xia as Self - Poet and Liu's Wife |
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Liu Xiaobo as Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage) |
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Mao Zedong as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Deng Xiaoping as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Hu Yaobang as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Mikhail Gorbachev as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Li Peng as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Zhao Ziyang as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Jian Zemin as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
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Bill Clinton as Self - Politician (archive footage) |
| Directing | Pierre Haski | Director |
| Camera | François Cauwel | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Anthony Dufour | Idea |
| Editing | Mathias Lavergne | Editor |
| Production | Nicolas Wiart | Production Manager |
| Production | Caroline Laub | Producer |
| Production | Anthony Dufour | Delegated Producer |
| Writing | Pierre Haski | Writer |
| Sound | Nicolas de Zorzi | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Heike Lettau | Producer |
| Sound | Romain Colonna D'Istria | Sound Mixer |
