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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1980

Original language

Sinhala

Spoken languages

Sinhalese

Countries

Sri Lanka

Cast

Vijaya Kumaratunga,Malini Fonseka,Joe Abeywickrama,Arthur C. Clarke,Henry Jayasena,Tony Ranasinghe,David Dharmakithri,Trelicia Gunawardena,D.R. Nanayakkara,Asoka Peirisand 4 more

Director

Lester James Peries

Writer

Leonard Woolf,Lester James Peries,A.J. Gunawarda

Cinematography

Willie Blake

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0080409