The Man Who Defied Beijing
China would like the world to forget his name
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.
Top Cast
Perry Link
Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian
Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja
Self - Sinologist
Xu Youyu
Self - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan
Self - Sinologist
Bei Ling
Self - Poet
Hu Ping
Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Self - Student Leader (1989)
Liao Yiwu
Self - Writer
Yu Jie
Self - Essayist
Teng Biao
Self - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang
Self - Economist
Chris May
Self - Diplomatic
Liu Xia
Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo
Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Similar Movies
Nightwatching
2007
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
2020
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Robin Williams: Behind Closed Doors
2016
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky
2002
The Fog of War
2003
War Photographer
2001
The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C.S. Lewis
2021
Genius
2016
Clara Immerwahr
2014
Hannibal Lecter, l'icône du mal par excellence
2010
Sand and Fire
2019
