Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
2023/03/28 - 2023/03/28 • Ended • 1 Seasons • English, Mandarin, French, Uighur, Tibetan
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.
Creator(s) : Tania Rakhmanova
Casts
Ai Weiwei
Self - Interviewee
Mao Zedong
Self (archive footage)
Deng Xiaoping
Self (archive footage)
Xi Jinping
Self (archive footage)
Jiang Zemin
Self (archive footage)
Zhou Enlai
Self (archive footage)
Philippe Bozo
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
Jean-Pol Brissart
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
Marc Brunet
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
Yumi Fujimori
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
Michel Laroussi
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
Martial Le Minoux
Self - Additional Voice (voice)
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Season 1
2023/03/28 • 2 Episodes
Season 1 of Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System premiered on March 28, 2023
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