Baddegama (1980)
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.
Rated
14A
Year
1980
Country
LK
Language
Sinhalese
Release date
1 January 1980
TMDB
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Vijaya Kumaratunga
Babun
Malini Fonseka
Punchi Menika
Joe Abeywickrama
Silindu
Arthur C. Clarke
Leonard Sidney Woolf
Henry Jayasena
Village Headsman
Tony Ranasinghe
Fernando
D
David Dharmakithri
Mudalithana
Trelicia Gunawardena
Silindu's Sister
D.R. Nanayakkara
Exorcist
A
Asoka Peiris
Mr. Perera
V
Vincent Vaas
Priest
Wijerathna Warakagoda
Nawanandana Wijesinghe
Lawyer
Nadeeka Gunasekara
Hinnihamy
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