The Man Who Defied Beijing

The Man Who Defied Beijing

59 mins | Documentary, History | May 14, 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.

The Man Who Defied Beijing

59 mins | Documentary, History | May 14, 2019

The Man Who Defied Beijing
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.
Producers RTBF, ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, Hikari
Original title L'Homme qui a défié Pékin
Directors Pierre Haski
Writers Pierre Haski, Anthony Dufour

Cast

Perry Link

as Himself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator

Hao Jian

as Himself - Film Critic and Screenwriter

Jean-Philippe Béja

as Himself - Sinologist

Xu Youyu

as Himself - Philosopher

Andrew Nathan

as Himself - Sinologist

Bei Ling

as Himself - Poet

Hu Ping

as Himself - Journalist

Wu'er Kaixi

as Himself - Student Leader (1989)

Liao Yiwu

as Himself - Writer

Yu Jie

as Himself - Essayist

Teng Biao

as Himself - Professor of Law

Xia Yeliang

as Himself - Economist

Chris May

as Himself - Diplomatic

Liu Xia

as Herself - Poet and Liu's Wife

Liu Xiaobo

as Himself - Writer and Activist (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Deng Xiaoping

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Hu Yaobang

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Li Peng

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Zhao Ziyang

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Jian Zemin

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

as Himself - Politician (archive footage)