Overview
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