
After the 1949 founding of the People’s Republic, Mao Zedong created the Laogai ‘Reform Through Labor’ camps, using forced labor and torture for repression. Millions were imprisoned, many executed, and inmate labor fueled the economy. Purges, climaxing in the Cultural Revolution, caused killings and exiles. Archival footage lets documentary trace China’s surveillance and repression system to today.
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Ai Weiwei
Self - Interviewee

Zhou Enlai
Self (archive footage)

Marc Brunet
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Martial Le Minoux
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Jean-Pol Brissart
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Deng Xiaoping
Self (archive footage)

Mao Zedong
Self (archive footage)

Xi Jinping
Self (archive footage)

Philippe Bozo
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Michel Laroussi
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Wang Dan
Self - Interviewee

Tony Marot
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Li Shuying
Self - Interviewee

Wang Juntao
Self - Interviewee

Camille Sannes
Self - Narrator (voice)

Ren Wanding
Self - Interviewee

Wei Zidan
Self - Interviewee

Ping Hu
Self - Interviewee

Wei Jingsheng
Self - Interviewee

Xiao Qiang
Self - Interviewee

Gulbahar Haitwaji
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

Jiang Zemin
Self (archive footage)

Liu Shaoqi
Self (archive footage)

Lin Biao
Self (archive footage)

Kang Sheng
Self (archive footage)

Yumi Fujimori
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Bernard Demory
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Jean-Pascal Quilichini
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
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