Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

2023
1h 1m
7.4

7.4/10

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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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Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Companies
Yami 2 ARTE RTS CNC PROCIREP
Production Countries
France Switzerland
Spoken Languages
English Mandarin French Tibetan Uighur

Keywords

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Quick Facts

Original Title Les camps, secret du pouvoir chinois
Release Date March 28, 2023
Status Ended
Language FR
IMDb ID tt27206654
Website Visit Site

Cast

Camille Sannes
Camille Sannes

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei

Self - Interviewee

Ren Wanding
Ren Wanding

Self - Interviewee

Wang Juntao
Wang Juntao

Self - Interviewee

Li Shuying
Li Shuying

Self - Interviewee

Wei Zidan
Wei Zidan

Self - Interviewee

Ping Hu
Ping Hu

Self - Interviewee

Wei Jingsheng
Wei Jingsheng

Self - Interviewee

Gulbahar Haitwaji
Gulbahar Haitwaji

Self - Interviewee

Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang

Self - Interviewee

Tong Yi
Tong Yi

Self - Interviewee

Teng Biao
Teng Biao

Self - Interviewee

Key Crew

Jean-Philippe Béja
Writer
Christophe Nick
Producer
Tania Rakhmanova
Writer
Tania Rakhmanova
Director
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