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The Man Who Defied Beijing

The Man Who Defied Beijing

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 14, 2019

Runtime

0h 59m

Genres

Documentary, History

User Score

65%

Original Title

L'Homme qui a défié Pékin

Production Companies

ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari

Director

Pierre Haski

Description

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.