Village in the Jungle

Jan 1, 1980

2h 10m

★ 5.8

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Silindu

Joe Abeywickrama

Punchi Menika

Malini Fonseka

Hinnihamy

Nadika Gunasekera

Mudalithana

David Dharmakithri

Silindu's Sister

Trelicia Gunawardena

Village Headsman

Henry Jayasena

Babun

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Exorcist

D.R. Nanayakkara

Mr. Perera

Asoka Peiris

Fernando

Tony Ranasinghe

Priest

Vincent Vaas

Wijerathna Warakagoda

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