Baddegama (film)

Beddegama
Directed by Lester James Peries
Starring Malini Fonseka
Joe Abeywickrama
Vijaya Kumaratunga
Release dates
  • 1980 (1980) (Sri Lanka)
Country Sri Lanka
Language Sinhala

Beddegama is a 1980 Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka.[1] The film is based on the 1913 book The Village in the Jungle by Leonard Woolf. Sir Arthur C. Clarke also has a minor role in the film as an English Judge.

Plot

The lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddagama (literally, "The village in the jungle") as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself. The head of the family is a hunter named Silindu, who has two daughters named Punchi Menika and Hinnihami. After being manipulated by the village authorities and a debt collector, Silindu is put on trial for murder

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Village in the jungle (Beddegama)" Lanka Newspapers. Retrieved 2014-6-15.

External links

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