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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Cherd Songsri
(September 20, 1931 – May 21, 2006) was a Thai film director,
screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to
introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his
best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao (The Scar), which
earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it. It won a
prize at the 1981 Three Continents Festival in Nantes, France. Cherd was
born in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province. He was trained as a maker of nang
talung shadow puppets, which were fashioned out of animal skins. He was
also a school teacher in Uttaradit Province and then became an editor of
publications for the Express Transportation Organization of Thailand.
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