About The Man Who Defied Beijing
- Released on May 14, 2019
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
Perry Link plays Himself - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
Hao Jian plays Himself - Film Critic and Screenwriter
Jean-Philippe Béja plays Himself - Sinologist
Xu Youyu plays Himself - Philosopher
Andrew Nathan plays Himself - Sinologist
Bei Ling plays Himself - Poet
Hu Ping plays Himself - Journalist
Wu'er Kaixi plays Himself - Student Leader (1989)
Liao Yiwu plays Himself - Writer
Yu Jie plays Himself - Essayist
Teng Biao plays Himself - Professor of Law
Xia Yeliang plays Himself - Economist
Chris May plays Himself - Diplomatic
Liu Xia plays Herself - Poet and Liu's Wife
Liu Xiaobo plays Himself - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
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Mao Zedong plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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Deng Xiaoping plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Hu Yaobang plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Mikhail Gorbachev plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Li Peng plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Zhao Ziyang plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Jian Zemin plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Bill Clinton plays Himself - Politician (archive footage)
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