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L'Homme qui a défié Pékin (2019)

The Man Who Defied Beijing

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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L'Homme qui a défié Pékin

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as Self - Sinologist and Liu's Translator

as Self - Film Critic and Screenwriter

Jean-Philippe Béja

Jean-Philippe Béja

as Self - Sinologist

as Self - Philosopher

as Self - Sinologist

as Self - Journalist

as Self - Student Leader (1989)

as Self - Writer

as Self - Essayist

as Self - Professor of Law

as Self - Economist

as Self - Diplomatic

as Self - Poet and Liu's Wife

as Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

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François Cauwel

François Cauwel

Director of Photography

Mathias Lavergne

Mathias Lavergne

Production Manager

Delegated Producer

Nicolas de Zorzi

Nicolas de Zorzi

Original Music Composer

Romain Colonna D'Istria

Romain Colonna D'Istria

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