Tongpan

• 7.4 Drama
• 1977-01-01
• 60 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Ong-art Ponethon (Tongpan) Phomhom Pilasombat (Tongpan's Wife) Ruengyos Srisorodsakul (College Student) Khamsing Srinawk (Academic at Seminar) Sane Chamarik (Speaker at Seminar) Peter Bell (Hydro-electricity Expert at Seminar) Sulak Sivaraksa (Seminar Participant) Surachai Chantimatorn (Minstrel)

Director:

Euthana Mukdasanit Paijong Laisagoon Rassamee Phaoluangthong Surachai Chantimatorn

Writer:

Witthayakon Chiangkun Khamsing Srinawk Paijong Laisagoon