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Village in the Jungle

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Calorie Rating: 183
Released: 1980-01-01
Running Time: 130 Minutes


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

Joe Abeywickrama
Character: Silindu
Malini Fonseka
Character: Punchi Menika
Vijaya Kumaratunga
Character: Babun

Arthur C. Clarke
Character: Leonard Sidney Woolf
Henry Jayasena
Character: Village Headsman
Tony Ranasinghe
Character: Fernando

Nadika Gunasekera
Character: Hinnihamy
David Dharmakithri
Character: Mudalithana
Trelicia Gunawardena
Character: Silindu's Sister

D.R. Nanayakkara
Character: Exorcist
Asoka Peiris
Character: Mr. Perera
Vincent Vaas
Character: Priest

Nawanandana Wijesinghe
Character: Lawyer


Production and Crew


Willie Blake
Director of Photography