Baddegama

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.

Directed by Lester James Peries

Top cast

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Babun

Malini Fonseka

Punchi Menika

Joe Abeywickrama

Silindu

Arthur C. Clarke

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Henry Jayasena

Village Headsman

Tony Ranasinghe

Fernando

D

David Dharmakithri

Mudalithana

Trelicia Gunawardena

Silindu's Sister

D.R. Nanayakkara

Exorcist

A

Asoka Peiris

Mr. Perera

V

Vincent Vaas

Priest

Wijerathna Warakagoda

Nawanandana Wijesinghe

Lawyer

Nadeeka Gunasekara

Hinnihamy

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