• Explore
  • Log in
  • Build your collection and connect with people who share your taste.

    Create accountLog in
Log inSign upCreate account
The Man Who Defied Beijing

The Man Who Defied Beijing

Pierre Haski

2019

  • Documentary
  • History
6.5

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.

Cast & crew

  • Pierre HaskiDirector
  • Perry LinkSelf - Sinologist and Liu's Translator
  • Hao JianSelf - Film Critic and Screenwriter
  • Jean-Philippe BéjaSelf - Sinologist
  • Xu YouyuSelf - Philosopher
  • Andrew NathanSelf - Sinologist
  • Bei LingSelf - Poet
  • Hu PingSelf - Journalist
  • Wu'er KaixiSelf - Student Leader (1989)

More like this

  • John Candy: I Like Me

    John Candy: I Like Me

    7.9• 2025

  • Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

    Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

    6.5• 2012

  • Woody Allen: A Documentary

    Woody Allen: A Documentary

    6.9• 2011

  • I Am Heath Ledger

    I Am Heath Ledger

    7.4• 2017

  • Shoah

    Shoah

    8.2• 1985

  • The Princess

    The Princess

    6.5• 2022

  • The Salt of the Earth

    The Salt of the Earth

    8.1• 2014

  • Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

    Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

    7.3• 2000

  • Baraka

    Baraka

    8.2• 1992

  • Stan Lee

    Stan Lee

    7.2• 2023

  • RBG

    RBG

    7.5• 2018

  • Nothing Like a Dame

    Nothing Like a Dame

    6.8• 2018