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

Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

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2023
1 Seasons
2 Episodes
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Documentary

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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Production Companies

Yami 2
ARTE
RTS
CNC
PROCIREP

Cast & Crew

39 members
Acting

Camille Sannes

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Directing

Ai Weiwei

Self - Interviewee

Ai Weiwei
Acting

Ren Wanding

Self - Interviewee

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Wang Juntao

Self - Interviewee

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Li Shuying

Self - Interviewee

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Wei Zidan

Self - Interviewee

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Acting

Ping Hu

Self - Interviewee

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Wei Jingsheng

Self - Interviewee

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Gulbahar Haitwaji

Self - Interviewee

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Xiao Qiang

Self - Interviewee

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Tong Yi

Self - Interviewee

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Teng Biao

Self - Interviewee

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Liao Yiwu

Self - Interviewee

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Cai Changguo

Self - Interviewee

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Song Yongyi

Self - Interviewee

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Xu Youyu

Self - Interviewee

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Mai Gang

Self - Interviewee

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Feng Guojiang

Self - Interviewee

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Chen Pokong

Self - Interviewee

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David Li

Self - Interviewee

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Liu Qing

Self - Interviewee

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Wang Dan

Self - Interviewee

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Mao Zedong

Self (archive footage)

Mao Zedong
Acting

Deng Xiaoping

Self (archive footage)

Deng Xiaoping
Acting

习近平

Self (archive footage)

习近平
Acting

Jiang Zemin

Self (archive footage)

Jiang Zemin
Acting

Liu Shaoqi

Self (archive footage)

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Zhou Enlai

Self (archive footage)

Zhou Enlai
Acting

Kang Sheng

Self (archive footage)

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Lin Biao

Self (archive footage)

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Philippe Bozo

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Philippe Bozo
Acting

Jean-Pol Brissart

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Jean-Pol Brissart
Acting

Marc Brunet

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Marc Brunet
Acting

Bernard Demory

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

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Yumi Fujimori

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Yumi Fujimori
Acting

Michel Laroussi

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Michel Laroussi
Acting

Martial Le Minoux

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Martial Le Minoux
Acting

Tony Marot

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

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Jean-Pascal Quilichini

Self - Additional Voice (voice)

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