The Man Who Defied Beijing
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.
- Year: 2019
- Country: Belgium, France, Germany
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Studio: ARTE GEIE, Pictanovo, RTBF, Hikari
- Keyword: biography, political activist, nobel peace prize, communist china, political repression, portrait of an artist, celebrity interview, tiananmen square, persecuted writer, last interview
- Director: Pierre Haski
- Cast: Perry Link, Hao Jian, Jean-Philippe Béja, Xu Youyu, Andrew Nathan, Bei Ling