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The Man Who Defied Beijing
59 minutes2019-05-14
6.5
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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.
Cast
![Perry Link](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Perry Link
Himself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
![Hao Jian](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hao Jian
Himself - Film Critic and Screenwriter
![Jean-Philippe Béja](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jean-Philippe Béja
Himself - Sinologist
![Xu Youyu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Xu Youyu
Himself - Philosopher
![Andrew Nathan](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Andrew Nathan
Himself - Sinologist
![Bei Ling](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Bei Ling
Himself - Poet
![Hu Ping](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hu Ping
Himself - Journalist
![Wu'er Kaixi](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//y6bZN9KvcErH1IPwgVIf6q1SFTD.jpg)
Wu'er Kaixi
Himself - Student Leader (1989)
![Liao Yiwu](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Liao Yiwu
Himself - Writer
![Yu Jie](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Yu Jie
Himself - Essayist
![Teng Biao](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Teng Biao
Himself - Professor of Law
![Xia Yeliang](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Xia Yeliang
Himself - Economist
![Chris May](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Chris May
Himself - Diplomatic
![Liu Xia](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Liu Xia
Herself - Poet and Liu's Wife
![Liu Xiaobo](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//8QRJx2quqihNDRcjfauMJ4dTw94.jpg)
Liu Xiaobo
Himself - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
![Mao Zedong](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//nuQSpbdD2i4jvBDB0TnvoVbD493.jpg)
Mao Zedong
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Deng Xiaoping](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//tBZ6MFpn7d58bgMJMattWUVm03P.jpg)
Deng Xiaoping
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Hu Yaobang](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Hu Yaobang
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Mikhail Gorbachev](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//kiKZ3XR760LyBZ8YvNdZf6EFFzl.jpg)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Li Peng](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Li Peng
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Zhao Ziyang](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Zhao Ziyang
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Jian Zemin](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jian Zemin
Himself - Politician (archive footage)
![Bill Clinton](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//aOSAwUHkTYdcVrl5MdOzuGRluTm.jpg)