Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System (2023)

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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  • First Air Date: 2023-03-28
  • Last Air Date: 2023-03-28
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 2
  • Episode Runtime: 61 min.
  • Network: ARTE, ARTE
  • Director: Tania Rakhmanova
  • Creator: Tania Rakhmanova

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Seasons

  • Season 1

    2 Episodes

Trailer

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Cast

  • 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)

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