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Baddegama

Name: Baddegama
Genre: Drama
Released: 1980-01-01
Duration: 130 min
Cast: Malini Fonseka, Vijaya Kumaratunga, Joe Abeywickrama, Arthur C. Clarke, Henry Jayasena

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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
Writers: Lester James Peries, A.J. Gunawarda, Leonard Woolf
Language: Sinhala, Sinhalese
Country: Sri Lanka
Release date: 1 January 1980

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