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Rated 6.6 on TMDB

Baddegama

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.

Released: 1980
Runtime: 2h 10m
Genres: Drama
Country: Sri Lanka
Language: Sinhalese

Direction and writing

Leonard WoolfNovel

Lester James PeriesWriter, Director

Cast

Vijaya KumaratungaBabun
Malini FonsekaPunchi Menika
Joe AbeywickramaSilindu

AJ

A.J. GunawardaWriter

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Arthur C. ClarkeLeonard Sidney Woolf

Henry JayasenaVillage Headsman

Tony RanasingheFernando

David DharmakithriMudalithana

Trelicia GunawardenaSilindu's Sister

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