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.

• Pierre HaskiDirector
• Pierre HaskiWriter
• Nicolas de ZorziOriginal Music Composer

• 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