Movie: Tongpan

Top 8 Billed Cast

Ong-art Ponethon
Ong-art Ponethon

Tongpan

Phomhom Pilasombat
Phomhom Pilasombat

Tongpan's Wife

Ruengyos Srisorodsakul
Ruengyos Srisorodsakul

College Student

Khamsing Srinawk
Khamsing Srinawk

Academic at Seminar

Sane Chamarik
Sane Chamarik

Speaker at Seminar

Peter Bell
Peter Bell

Hydro-electricity Expert at Seminar

Sulak Sivaraksa
Sulak Sivaraksa

Seminar Participant

Surachai Chantimatorn
Surachai Chantimatorn

Minstrel

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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.

  • Release Date

    1977-01-01

  • Average

    7.4

  • Rating:

    3.7 starts
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  • Languages:

    ภาษาไทย
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