Tongpan
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1hr
Directed by
Euthana Mukdasanit,
Paijong Laisagoon,
Rassamee Phaoluangthong,
Mike Morrow
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Starring
Ong-art Ponethon,
Phomhom Pilasombat,
Ruengyos Srisorodsakul,
Sane Chamarik
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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.
