Tongpan [ทองปาน]

Release Year
1977
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Documentary
Drama
Directed By
Euthana Mukdasanit
Surachai Chantimatorn
Paijong Laisagoon
Rassamee Phaoluangthong
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.

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