The read
It runs a compact 59m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
TMDB6.5/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Pierre HaskiDirector
- Nicolas de ZorziOriginal Music Composer
- Pierre HaskiWriter
Cast
- 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
Stills
Themes
biographypolitical activistnobel peace prizecommunist chinapolitical repressionportrait of an artistcelebrity interviewtiananmen squarepersecuted writerlast interview