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. 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.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Silindu

Joe Abeywickrama

Punchi Menika

Malini Fonseka

Babun

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Arthur C. Clarke

Village Headsman

Henry Jayasena

Fernando

Tony Ranasinghe

Hinnihamy

Nadika Gunasekera

Mudalithana

David Dharmakithri

Silindu's Sister

Trelicia Gunawardena

Exorcist

D.R. Nanayakkara

Mr. Perera

Asoka Peiris

Priest

Vincent Vaas

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