The Man Who Defied Beijing
2019A 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.
Acted in
Perry Link
as Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian
as Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja
as Self - Sinologist
Xu Youyu
as Self - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan
as Self - Sinologist
Bei Ling
as Self - Poet
Hu Ping
as Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
as Self - Student Leader (1989)
Liao Yiwu
as Self - Writer
Yu Jie
as Self - Essayist
Teng Biao
as Self - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang
as Self - Economist
Chris May
as Self - Diplomatic
Liu Xia
as Self - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo
as Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
Mao Zedong
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Deng Xiaoping
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Hu Yaobang
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Li Peng
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Zhao Ziyang
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Jian Zemin
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
as Self - Politician (archive footage)