Tongpan

Tongpan

60 mins | Drama, Documentary | Jan. 1, 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.

Tongpan

60 mins | Drama, Documentary | Jan. 1, 1977

Tongpan
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.

Cast

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