Village in the Jungle

Village in the Jungle

2h 10m 5.8/10

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.

Director

Lester James Peries

Top Billed Cast

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Vijaya Kumaratunga

Babun

Malini Fonseka

Malini Fonseka

Punchi Menika

Joe Abeywickrama

Joe Abeywickrama

Silindu

Henry Jayasena

Henry Jayasena

Village Headsman

Tony Ranasinghe

Tony Ranasinghe

Fernando

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