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The Man Who Defied Beijing

China would like the world to forget his name
May 14, 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.

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Perry Link
Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian
Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja
Self - Sinologist
Xu Youyu
Self - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan
Self - Sinologist
Bei Ling
Self - Poet
Hu Ping
Self - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi
Self - Student Leader (1989)
Directed by Pierre Haski

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FR
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ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari
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FR

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