The Botanist
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Social Soviet Republic, plunged into a devastating civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region of the Pamir where Raïmberdi, a passionate and ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric station to help his family survive through the crisis.
- Director
- Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis
- Country
- Tajikistan, Canada
- Length
- 20 min
- Theme
- Sciences, Botany
- Type Film
- Documentary, Short
- Premiere
- Dutch premiere
- Year
- 2016
- Language
- Kyrgyz, Russian
- Subtitle
- English
- Producer
- Maude Plante-Husaruk, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis
- Editor
- Maude Plante-Husaruk