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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.
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Cast

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