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.
Full Cast of The Man Who Defied Beijing
Bill Clinton
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 t...
Perry Link
as Himself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian
as Himself - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja
as Himself - Sinologist
Xu Youyu
as Himself - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan
as Himself - Sinologist
Bei Ling
as Himself - Poet
Hu Ping
as Himself - Journalist
Liao Yiwu
as Himself - Writer
Yu Jie
as Himself - Essayist
Teng Biao
as Himself - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang
as Himself - Economist
Chris May
as Himself - Diplomatic
Liu Xia
as Herself - Poet and Liu's Wife
Hu Yaobang
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Li Peng
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Zhao Ziyang
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Jian Zemin
as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Crew of The Man Who Defied Beijing
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