The Man Who Defied Beijing
2019, French. Directed by Pierre Haski.
China would like the world to forget his name
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.
- Runtime
- 0h 59m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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The Man Who Defied Beijing is streaming on Magellan TV in India.
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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)
- Liao YiwuSelf - Writer
- Yu JieSelf - Essayist
- Teng BiaoSelf - Professor of Law
- Xia YeliangSelf - Economist
Details
- Released
- 14 May 2019
- Original title
- L'Homme qui a défié Pékin
- Country
- Belgium, France, Germany
- Written by
- Pierre Haski
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The Man Who Defied Beijing is streaming on Magellan TV in India. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Man Who Defied Beijing?
The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019) was directed by Pierre Haski and stars Perry Link, Hao Jian, Jean-Philippe Béja.