Guards backed by the government prevented the star of "Batman" Christian Bale visit a Chinese activist under house arrest.
A production team accompanied Bale CNN when the incident occurred.
The video released Friday chain of confrontation in its website.
The news is sure to cause disruption to China's film industry, supported by the government, he expects Bale film "The Flowers of War", filmed in the country, a success in and outside China.
Also expected to put back in the spotlight for Chen Guangcheng, who lives under strict supervision at other times and who has been violently denied visits by journalists and activists.
Bale was scheduled to leave China on Friday and their representatives were not located in time to hear from you.
Bale, who last year won the Oscar for best supporting actor for "The Fighter", went on Friday with CNN's production team to a population in eastern China where Chen lives, who is blind, with his family in total isolation.
The group was arrested by an unidentified group at the entrance to the Dongshigu population in the province of Shandong.
The video shows Bale Chen asking to see a CNN producer who acted as interpreter. The men were ordered to leave. Bale asked why could not pass the guards responded and beating him or trying to take the video camera he carried.
"What we wanted was to know the Lord, shake hands and say it's a great inspiration," Bale told CNN quoted him as saying.
Chen's case has been publicly denounced by U.S. lawmakers and diplomats, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, but this has not generated responses in China.
CNN said that Chen knew Bale news reports when I was in China filming "The Flowers of War" the movie proposed by China to compete in the category of Best Foreign Film at the Oscars.
"Chen Guangcheng is a prominent figure ... and as such is part of the interest of global CNN viewers know him," CNN said in a statement. "Mr. Bale CNN approached and invited us to accompany him on his journey to visit Chen."
Chen, a self-taught lawyer who lost his sight in childhood, raised the ire of the authorities to document abortions in advanced stages of pregnancy and forced sterilization and other abuses by the authorities trying to fulfill the goals of population control in their rural community. He was jailed for allegedly inciting an attack against the government and organize a group of people to affect traffic, according to charges that his supporters were manufactured.
Although it is free under the law, has been confined to his home in the population to eight hours of Beijing and has been subjected to beatings and other abuses, activists say.
