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Tongpan

  • January 1977
  • 1hr

  • Drama
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Euthana Mukdasanit,

    Mike Morrow,

    Paijong Laisagoon,

    Rassamee Phaoluangthong

    ...

    Starring

    Ong-art Ponethon,

    Phomhom Pilasombat,

    Ruengyos Srisorodsakul,

    Sane Chamarik

    ...

    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.