Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System

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


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Creator: Tania Rakhmanova
  • First Air Date: 2023-03-28
  • Last Air Date: 2023-03-28
  • Total Seasons: 1
  • Total Episodes: 2
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 61 min.
  • Production Company: Yami 2
  • Production Country: France, Switzerland
  • Networks: ARTE, ARTE
  • Director: Tania Rakhmanova
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Summary

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.

  • Keywords: totalitarian regime, oppression, prison camp, communist china, political documentary, contemporary history, chinese history
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    Season 1

    First Air Date: 2023-03-28
    2 Episodes

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    • Camille Sannes

      as Self - Narrator (voice)
    • Ai Weiwei

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Ren Wanding

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Wang Juntao

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Li Shuying

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Wei Zidan

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Ping Hu

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Wei Jingsheng

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Gulbahar Haitwaji

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Xiao Qiang

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Tong Yi

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Teng Biao

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Liao Yiwu

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Cai Changguo

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Song Yongyi

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Xu Youyu

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Mai Gang

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Feng Guojiang

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Chen Pokong

      as Self - Interviewee
    • David Li

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Liu Qing

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Wang Dan

      as Self - Interviewee
    • Mao Zedong

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Deng Xiaoping

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Xi Jinping

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Jiang Zemin

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Liu Shaoqi

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Zhou Enlai

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Kang Sheng

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Lin Biao

      as Self (archive footage)
    • Philippe Bozo

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Jean-Pol Brissart

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Marc Brunet

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Bernard Demory

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Yumi Fujimori

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Michel Laroussi

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Martial Le Minoux

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Tony Marot

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    • Jean-Pascal Quilichini

      as Self - Additional Voice (voice)
    Writing Tania Rakhmanova Writer
    Writing Jean-Philippe Béja Writer
    Production Christophe Nick Producer
    Production Fabrice Puchault Co-Producer
    Production Anne Grolleron Co-Producer
    Production Laurent Huguenin-Elie Associate Producer
    Production Frédéric Pfyffer Associate Producer
    Sound Baptiste Charvet Music
    Camera Georgi Lazarevski Director of Photography
    Editing Aurélien Guégan Editor
    Sound Yves Bagot Sound
    Sound Matthieu Daude Sound
    Sound Frédéric Heinrich Sound
    Sound Nick Poholchuk Sound
    Sound Robert Shire Sound
    Sound Olivier Virmont Sound
    Sound Amélie Canini Sound Editor
    Sound Amélie Canini Sound Re-Recording Mixer
    Directing Tania Rakhmanova Director

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