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.

Cast

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Vijaya Kumaratunga

as Babun

Malini Fonseka

Malini Fonseka

as Punchi Menika

Joe Abeywickrama

Joe Abeywickrama

as Silindu

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

as Leonard Sidney Woolf

Henry Jayasena

Henry Jayasena

as Village Headsman

Tony Ranasinghe

Tony Ranasinghe

as Fernando

David Dharmakithri

David Dharmakithri

as Mudalithana

Trelicia Gunawardena

Trelicia Gunawardena

as Silindu's Sister

D.R. Nanayakkara

D.R. Nanayakkara

as Exorcist

Asoka Peiris

Asoka Peiris

as Mr. Perera

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