The Man Who Defied Beijing

"China would like the world to forget his name"

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.

Director: Pierre Haski

Cast

P

Perry Link

Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator

H

Hao Jian

Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter

J

Jean-Philippe Béja

Self - Sinologist

X

Xu Youyu

Self - Philosopher

A

Andrew Nathan

Self - Sinologist

B

Bei Ling

Self - Poet

H

Hu Ping

Self - Journalist

Wu'er Kaixi

Self - Student Leader (1989)