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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Cast
14 people
Vijaya Kumaratunga
Babun
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Ponmani
Malini Fonseka
Punchi Menika
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Bambaru Awith
The Treasure
Joe Abeywickrama
Silindu
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Death on a Full Moon Day
Aswasuma
Arthur C. Clarke
Leonard Sidney Woolf
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Henry Jayasena
Village Headsman
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Ghosts Can't Do It
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Tony Ranasinghe
Fernando
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Between Two Worlds
White Flowers for the Dead
David Dharmakithri
Mudalithana
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Mangrove Island
Aradhana
Trelicia Gunawardena
Silindu's Sister
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Iqbal
Changes in the Village
D.R. Nanayakkara
Exorcist
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Asoka Peiris
Mr. Perera
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Between Two Worlds
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Vincent Vaas
Priest
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Wijerathna Warakagoda
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Lester James Peries Director · A.J. Gunawarda Writer Leonard Woolf Author
First release January 1, 1980 · Produced in Sri Lanka
Production
Sri Lanka
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Languages
Original language
Sinhala
Spoken on screen
Sinhala
Release dates
Sri Lanka · January 1, 1980
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Canada
September 11, 1982 · Theatrical
France
May 16, 1981 · Theatrical
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