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China would like the world to forget his name

The Man Who Defied Beijing

6.5 2019 59m
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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.

Directed by Pierre Haski

VISUAL ARCHIVE

Selected stills from the film

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CAST

The people behind the story

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Perry LinkSelf - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
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Hao JianSelf - Film Critic and Screenwriter
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Jean-Philippe BéjaSelf - Sinologist
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Xu YouyuSelf - Philosopher
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Andrew NathanSelf - Sinologist
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Bei LingSelf - Poet
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Hu PingSelf - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Wu'er KaixiSelf - Student Leader (1989)
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