''Deng Xiaoping'' is a 2002

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directed by

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and starring veteran actor Lu Qi as the aged

Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CC ...

. The biopic was the first major film on the life of Deng Xiaoping, though it only covers the twenty years from his return to power in 1976, to his last visit to

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in 1991.

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