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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  Wu'er Kaixi

  Self - Student Leader (1989)
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  Liu Xiaobo

  Self - Writer and Activist (archive footage)
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  Mao Zedong

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Deng Xiaoping

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Self - Politician (archive footage)
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  Bill Clinton

  Self - Politician (archive footage)