Village in the Jungle
movie
Released January 01, 1980
Genres:
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.
Cast
Joe Abeywickrama
as
Silindu
Malini Fonseka
as
Punchi Menika
Vijaya Kumaratunga
as
Babun
Arthur C. Clarke
as
Leonard Sidney Woolf
Henry Jayasena
as
Village Headsman
Tony Ranasinghe
as
Fernando
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Nadika Gunasekera
as
Hinnihamy
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David Dharmakithri
as
Mudalithana
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Trelicia Gunawardena
as
Silindu's Sister
D.R. Nanayakkara
as
Exorcist
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Asoka Peiris
as
Mr. Perera
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Vincent Vaas
as
Priest
