Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System (2023)
Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System (2023)
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Plot.
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.
Where to Watch.

Currently Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Canal+
Streaming in:🇫🇷 France
Cast & Crew.

Camille Sannes
Self - Narrator (voice)

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 - Interviewee

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 (archive footage)

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
Self - Additional Voice (voice)

Tania Rakhmanova
Creator / Writer / Director

Jean-Philippe Béja
Writer

Christophe Nick
Producer

Fabrice Puchault
Co-Producer

Anne Grolleron
Co-Producer

Laurent Huguenin-Elie
Associate Producer

Frédéric Pfyffer
Associate Producer

Baptiste Charvet
Music

Georgi Lazarevski
Director of Photography

Aurélien Guégan
Editor

Yves Bagot
Sound

Matthieu Daude
Sound

Frédéric Heinrich
Sound

Nick Poholchuk
Sound

Robert Shire
Sound

Olivier Virmont
Sound

Amélie Canini
Sound Editor / Sound Re-Recording Mixer / Sound Editor / Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Media.


Details.
Release DateMarch 28, 2023
Original NameLes camps, secret du pouvoir chinois
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes2
Running Time1h 1m
Genres
Last updated:
This TV Show Is About.
totalitarian regime
oppression
prison camp
communist china
political documentary
contemporary history
chinese history
labor camp
forced labor
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