The Overture
Director: Ittisoontorn Vichailak
Cast: Anuchit Sapanpong, Adul Dulyarat, Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Plot Synopsis
Based on the life of Luang Pradit Pairoh (Sorn Silapabanleng) the most revered traditional Thai music master who lived during the reigns of Kings Rama V to VIII.
The movie traces the life of Sorn, who picked up the ra-nad ek (Thai xylophone) mallets as a small child and played all his life. The backdrop to Sorn's life tale is the story of Thailand's classical music from its golden age during the reign of King Rama V to near extinction after the end of the absolute monarchy.
In the 1930s the government banned it as uncivilised. It was a time when Field Marshall Plaek Pibulsongkram tried to push Thailand into the modern era.
The film shifts back and forth from the time when Sorn was a young man, playing in a xylophone duel with the intense Kun In, to the 1940s, when Thailand was under Japanese occupation. Sorn's playing would provide some inspiration to the oppressed citizenry of the time.
Originally written by Wise Kwai
AKA: โหมโรง (Hom Rong)
Year: 2004
Country: Thailand
Language: Thai
Subtitles: English Custom subbed by janjte
Film Genre: Period Drama
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415046/
File Format: MP4
Video Codec: x264 core115 r1947 2-pass
Resolution: 704 x 528
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Audio Codec: AAC-HE
Audio Channels: 5.1
Audio Bitrate: VBR
Video Runtime: 1 hours 40 mins
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