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Baddegama
Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.
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Cast
Vijaya KumaratungaBabun
Malini FonsekaPunchi Menika
Joe AbeywickramaSilindu
Arthur C. ClarkeLeonard Sidney Woolf
Henry JayasenaVillage Headsman
Tony RanasingheFernando- David DharmakithriMudalithana
Trelicia GunawardenaSilindu's Sister
D.R. NanayakkaraExorcist- Asoka PeirisMr. Perera
- Vincent VaasPriest
Wijerathna Warakagoda
Nawanandana WijesingheLawyer
Nadeeka GunasekaraHinnihamy
Details
- Director
- Lester James Peries
- Writers
- Leonard Woolf, Lester James Peries, A.J. Gunawarda
- Release date
- January 1, 1980
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- Original language
- Sinhala
