The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)

6.5/10 59 min Documentary History

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.

Cast

Wu'er Kaixi

Self - Student Leader (1989)

Liu Xiaobo

Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)

Mao Zedong

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Deng Xiaoping

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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