Name: The Man Who Defied Beijing
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2019-05-14
Duration: 59 min
Cast: Perry Link, Hao Jian, Jean-Philippe Béja, Xu Youyu, Andrew Nathan

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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.

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Directed by: Pierre Haski
Written by: Pierre Haski
Produced by: Heike Lettau, Caroline Laub
Music by: Nicolas de Zorzi

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May 14, 2019 · 59 min · Documentary, History

Released: May 14, 2019
Runtime: 59 min
Genres: Documentary, History
Original language: French
Also spoken: Chinese
Made in: Belgium, France, Germany
Available in: 94 countries

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In the United States, The Man Who Defied Beijing streams on Magellan TV, and it is free with ads on Pluto TV and Tubi TV. It also streams in 93 other countries.

Is The Man Who Defied Beijing worth watching?

71

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Mostly, it's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 71 (IMDb 7.7).

Is The Man Who Defied Beijing plot-driven or character-driven?

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Mostly character-driven: it leans on character depth (8 of 10) and pathos (8 of 10) more than on its plot.

Is The Man Who Defied Beijing in English?

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No, it was made in French, with some Chinese.