THE AGRONOMIST

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• Release Year: 2003
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: 'Entrancing and timely.' - New York Magazine; 'The Agronomist is a wonderful gift! Compelling! An unexpectedly moving and exciting story!' - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times; ; From Academy Award winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme, 'The Agronomist' tells the story of Haitian national hero, journalist, and freedom fighter Jean Dominique, whom Demme first met and filmed in 1986. As owner and operator of his nation's oldest and only free radio station, Dominique was frequently at odds with his country's various repressive governments and spent much of the '80s and early '90s in exile in New York, where Demme continued to interview him over the years. Dominique fought tirelessly against his country's overwhelming injustice, oppression, and poverty but it was Dominique's shocking and still-unsolved assassination in April of 2000 that gave the director the impetus to assemble more than a decade's worth of material into a celebration of this dynamic man and his legacy.
• Cast: Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan, Jonathan Demme, Edwidge Danticat, Bevin McNamara, Peter Saraf, Rebecca Conroy, Lizzie Gelber, Glenn Allen, Marc Cohen, Wyclef Jean, Albert Gasser, Paul Hsu, Nicholas Renbeck, Steven Visscher
• Director: Jonathan Demme
• Runtime: 1:31
• Company: Clinica Estetico, HBO/Cinemax Documentary
• Media Format: Movie