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Tongpan

7.4 60 mins Drama   Documentary   1977
Green TV  
Director(s): Euthana Mukdasanit Paijong Laisagoon Rassamee Phaoluangthong Surachai Chantimatorn

Release Date: 01 Sat, Jan 1977

Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Northeast Thailand in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong. Interwoven are sequences depicting a poor farmer, Tongpan, who had lost his land to another dam some years before, and his struggles to make ends meet.

Casts of Tongpan

Ong-art Ponethon

as Tongpan

Phomhom Pilasombat

as Tongpan's Wife

Ruengyos Srisorodsakul

as College Student

Khamsing Srinawk

as Academic at Seminar

Sane Chamarik

as Speaker at Seminar

Peter Bell

as Hydro-electricity Expert at Seminar

Sulak Sivaraksa

as Seminar Participant

Surachai Chantimatorn

as Minstrel

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