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Baddegama (1980)

Baddegama (1980)

Drama
Release Date: 1980, January 1
Directors: Lester James Peries
Countries: Sri Lanka
Cast: D.R. Nanayakkara, Malini Fonseka, Joe Abeywickrama, Tony Ranasinghe, Nadika Gunasekera, Henry Jayasena, Trelicia Gunawardena, Asoka Peiris, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Nawanandana Wijesinghe, David Dharmakithri, Vincent Vaas

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.

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sri lanka