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01/01/1980 Drama 2h 10m
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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.

  1. Lester James Peries

    Writer, Director

  2. A.J. Gunawarda

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Joe Abeywickrama

    Silindu

  2. Malini Fonseka

    Punchi Menika

  3. Vijaya Kumaratunga

    Babun

  4. Arthur C. Clarke

    Leonard Sidney Woolf

  5. Henry Jayasena

    Village Headsman

  6. Tony Ranasinghe

    Fernando

  7. Nadika Gunasekera

    Hinnihamy

  8. David Dharmakithri

    Mudalithana

  9. Trelicia Gunawardena

    Silindu's Sister

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Full Cast & Crew

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Status
Released

Original Language
Sinhala

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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