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At first, nothing predestined Deng Xiaoping, a landowner’s son, to become the head of the largest communist nation in the world. Opting for political pragmatism over ideology, Deng managed to entirely reform China. But he is also the man who, in 1989, ordered out the tanks that crushed the democratic movement on Tiananmen Square. Who was this man who hailed the technologies of the 21st century and at the same time took his inspiration from a 19th century philosophy? Why did this traditionalist young man of means take to communist ideals? What path led him to create this hybrid political system? The film attempts to answer these questions by examining the future leader’s formative years: from his nationalist peasant origins to his schooling in France, from the Long March alongside Mao to his rise to power.

France - 2007 - 52 mn - DV Cam - Colour and B&W

Director Barbara Necek from an original idea by Daniel Leconte Writer Barbara Nececk Camera Xavier Liberman Editing Laurent Abellard

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