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Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
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Title: Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

Release Date: 28 Mar 2023

Runtime: 1h 1m

Genre: Documentary

Director: Tania Rakhmanova

Production Companies: Yami 2, ARTE, RTS, CNC, PROCIREP

Overview: After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.

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Average Vote: 7.5 (2 votes)

Cast

  • Self - Narrator (voice): Camille Sannes
  • Self - Interviewee: Ai Weiwei
  • Self - Interviewee: Ren Wanding
  • Self - Interviewee: Wang Juntao
  • Self - Interviewee: Li Shuying
  • Self - Interviewee: Wei Zidan
  • Self - Interviewee: Ping Hu
  • Self - Interviewee: Wei Jingsheng
  • Self - Interviewee: Gulbahar Haitwaji
  • Self - Interviewee: Xiao Qiang
  • Self - Interviewee: Tong Yi
  • Self - Interviewee: Teng Biao
  • Self - Interviewee: Liao Yiwu
  • Self - Interviewee: Cai Changguo
  • Self - Interviewee: Song Yongyi
  • Self - Interviewee: Xu Youyu
  • Self - Interviewee: Mai Gang
  • Self - Interviewee: Feng Guojiang
  • Self - Interviewee: Chen Pokong
  • Self - Interviewee: David Li
  • Self - Interviewee: Liu Qing
  • Self - Interviewee: Wang Dan
  • Self (archive footage): Mao Zedong
  • Self (archive footage): Deng Xiaoping
  • Self (archive footage): Xi Jinping
  • Self (archive footage): Jiang Zemin
  • Self (archive footage): Liu Shaoqi
  • Self (archive footage): Zhou Enlai
  • Self (archive footage): Kang Sheng
  • Self (archive footage): Lin Biao
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Philippe Bozo
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Jean-Pol Brissart
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Marc Brunet
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Bernard Demory
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Yumi Fujimori
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Michel Laroussi
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Martial Le Minoux
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Tony Marot
  • Self - Additional Voice (voice): Jean-Pascal Quilichini
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