Village in the Jungle
Drama

Village in the Jungle

5.8/ 10
January 1, 1980
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.

Director: Lester James Peries

Cast

Joe Abeywickrama

Joe Abeywickrama

Silindu

Malini Fonseka

Malini Fonseka

Punchi Menika

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Babun

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Henry Jayasena

Henry Jayasena

Village Headsman

Tony Ranasinghe

Tony Ranasinghe

Fernando

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Nadika Gunasekera

Hinnihamy

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David Dharmakithri

Mudalithana

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Trelicia Gunawardena

Silindu's Sister

D.R. Nanayakkara

D.R. Nanayakkara

Exorcist

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