Agent of Influence

This story of espionage and counter-espionage is based on the novel by Ian Adams. Suspicious circumstances surrounded the mysterious death of a Canadian diplomat. At the height of The Cold War in October 1964, John Watkins, Canada's former ambassador to Moscow and a close friend of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, is kidnapped and held in a hotel for questioning by the RCMP at the urging of the CIA. Several days into the interrogation he died. The official obituary claimed that he suffered a heart attack in the company of friends during a farewell supper celebrating his illustrious career.

• Michel PouletteDirector
• Ian AdamsWriter
• Riley AdamsWriter
• Jean-Marie BenoîtOriginal Music Composer

• Christopher PlummerJohn Watkins
• Marina OrsiniDiane Fletcher
• Ted WhittallRobert Madison
• Shaun JohnstonDavid Present
• Kurtis SanheimSean Fitzpatrick
• Alain GoulemMurray Fletcher
• Terry LawrenceChris Hayden
• Paul CœurCharles Adair
• Gregory HladyGregory Aloysha
• Cas AnvarKhamal Rashid
• Norman EdgeFletcher Sr.
• Pierre RivardMario Béliveau