Baddegama

(1980)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1980

Runtime: 130 мин

Country: Sri Lanka

Director: Lester James Peries

Cast: Vijaya Kumaratunga, මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා, Joe Abeywickrama, Артур Чарльз Кларк, Henry Jayasena, Tony Ranasinghe, David Dharmakithri, Trelicia Gunawardena, D.R. Nanayakkara, Asoka Peiris

Plot

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.